Ask the Author: Charles Beagley
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Charles Beagley
I would like to go back for a brief visit to the cold war period. It may have been a perilous period, but all the same, it was exciting. The world today is so predictable: back then everything was on a cusp. It was the time when most of the really good fiction writers: Forsyth, Ludlum, Fleming got their inspiration. It is when Fiction truly started.
Charles Beagley
I'm sorry, I have no answer to that. As I said, I am a spontaneous writer. I don't sit and brood about what I am going to write; I just write. Say I'm lucky. I can write for 3 hours without a break. I read the previous chapter and automatically carry on to the next. To me a story has a life of it's own once you start. My career was as an advertising designer, so my mind thinks visually, which means I have the story in my head, and it simply flows out. If I was to imagine the solution to a writers block, I would say, read what you have written, the rest will come.
Charles Beagley
Writing is a personal thing. There is no one more lonely than a writer. But for me it allows me to put all my opinions, desires, prejudices and other worldly things down to read. I like reading my work, but better still, I like other people reading my work.
Charles Beagley
Join Victorian Writers. They have any amount of mentors, competitions and opportunities for a new writer. Before the Internet I went to the library, mine had an enormous range of How To books by established authors. I learnt a lot. But there's nothing better than writing, don't worry about whether it's good or not, just write, write, write.
Charles Beagley
I'm not writing at the moment. I am editing. Since self publishing on Amazon, I have decided to print some of the 20 books I've written.
Charles Beagley
I am a spontaneous writer. I only react to a trigger, be it something I see, read or hear. I work on the idea for a month and if it doesn't mature, I drop it in my Story Chest to work on later.
Charles Beagley
My latest book happens to be a sequel to an earlier book: Who Goes there? A story about the 'Troubles' in Ulster (Northern Ireland) My close friends all said the story was not finished, so I went 5 years on and wrote: An Eye for an Eye.
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