Ask the Author: Rachel Redhead
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Rachel Redhead
well I was looking forward to the new Lisbeth Salander book, which I've now read, I was a little disappointed, but sometimes you over-hype a book in your head, until the real thing can never match up
Rachel Redhead
There's so many, though I think I'd want to travel the worlds of the Doctor Who novels, so many different adventures await, a different one each time for years and years
Rachel Redhead
There are secret places only remembered in dreams, so follow the strange path not seen in the waking world. Inside of these hidden places lies an old wooden box, and if you ever open it...
Rachel Redhead
I just get all these ideas for stories all the time, at first I would just crank out hundreds of tiny bits of story and think that was writing, but over the years I've learned to put things together, to build up a more complex and interesting story, though I do like to experiment with what makes a story and what makes a book, to push the boundaries of literature, mixing prose and poetry, prose and script etc to see what works, why it works, what doesn't work and why not. I prefer to listen to music when I'm writing, rather than read books, which many might disagree with, but it works for me. I find that sometimes I need a certain type of music to get me into a certain mood to write a certain piece of the story in a certain way. So dark brooding rock music helps me write nasty brutal scenes, while upbeat ballady music is good for a romantic piece.
Rachel Redhead
I'm currently editing the first book of a planned five book cycle that covers many horror themes as well as mythological themes. I've done horror before and I've done some mythology before too, but I've always done so in a very fictionalised context, changing things wholesale to suit my needs, under the guise that people have just got things a bit wrong over the years. The Curse-Breaker books are more about trying to explore what horror is, what we find horrific and why we're so afraid of things that go bump in the night. I've started writing a few bits too for the second book, as I had a strong idea and justran with it to see where it went.
Rachel Redhead
write, just write, don't let anyone or anything put you off, if you've got a story inside of you then do what it takes to get it down on the page because if you like it then the chances are that someone else will like it too.
Rachel Redhead
finishing a story, knowing that you've got all those mad ideas out of your head and tamed into one (hopefully) coherent structure that others (hopefully) can read and (hopefully) enjoy
Rachel Redhead
do other things, I can't write if I'm not in the mood to write and if I'm stuck with one story then I might watch a DVD, listen to music, read a book, or rearrange things, just to get my concious mind off the story, sometimes the best answers come from the subconcious and that only works for me when I'm thinking about something else so it can have a go at the problem.
Rachel Redhead
for Judy Collins: The Wander Years I wanted to take Judy out of her comfortable safe environment, away from her friends, to put her in new dangers and perhaps also revisit some places from her youth when she travelled the universe with Yardley James. I wanted to see how she'd react to all these things and how it would make her develop more as a person, so that she could become more than she was at the start of the book.
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