Ask the Author: David Beeson
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David Beeson
Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Because of their intelligence (in her case, feeding a great wit) and because the way it allows them to bounce off each other to the improvement of both their personalities.
David Beeson
Read. Around your subject if you're writing something that needs research; books by writers you like or admire (or both) if you just need that little push that says "oh wow! I wish I could write something like that", because if you're thinking that way, you have to get back to the writing – you can't write like someone you admire if you stop writing because you're blocked...
David Beeson
The sheer joy of completing a novel and seeing it in print. And getting feedback from readers, however few, if they enjoy it.
David Beeson
Write. Keep writing. Finish the writing. Then edit, edit, edit. And probably edit again. Get other people to read your book and then edit some more. Then publish: if you can get an agent and a publisher the traditional way, brilliant – congratulations. If you can't, well just go ahead anyway, since it's so easy these days.
David Beeson
A historical novel on an extraordinary woman of the eighteenth century, who won herself an international reputation as an intellectual but also led a fascinating, and exciting, personal life.
David Beeson
Quirky aspects of life sometimes spring out on me and make me think "that's material for a blog post. Or perhaps even a novel."
David Beeson
An easy question: from my professional life. I was put on something just short of gardening leave for having pushed ideas that were badly received – that gave me both a theme and the time to do the writing...
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