Sandy
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David McConkey:
As you can see from my last name, I am Irish descent too. Does your Irish background influence your plots, stories, etc? If so, how?
David McConkey
Hi Sandy! Gosh, I could get a bit philosophical here if I start to question why this stuff comes out of me! I've read interviews from different authors about why they write and what drives them, and so that's something I've asked myself. I've a friend who has written several books and for him its because he has always, even when he was a little boy, loved telling stories. That's not it for me! I think I write as a means to express my perspective on the world, as a way to be better understood....that may well make me a narcissist I'm not sure!
Anyway, if I am in anyway successful in doing that, in giving voice to whats in me and who I am....then I imagine you can't divorce your cultural heritage from that because it will have shaped you to some extent. How much I think is hard to say...because I've never not had that background to see how different I would be without it! It'd be fun to know if anyone who reads the book could detect a celtic voice/tone if they didn't know anything about the author! I would never view it as a primary source of my identity but we'd probably all be a bit different/see things slightly differently, if we grew up somewhere else in the world.
As far as consciously influencing plot lines, well I'm writing book 2 at the moment but when we hit book 3 - if I/you/we ever get that far! you'll see our celtic ancestors are shown pretty favorably! :)
Anyway, if I am in anyway successful in doing that, in giving voice to whats in me and who I am....then I imagine you can't divorce your cultural heritage from that because it will have shaped you to some extent. How much I think is hard to say...because I've never not had that background to see how different I would be without it! It'd be fun to know if anyone who reads the book could detect a celtic voice/tone if they didn't know anything about the author! I would never view it as a primary source of my identity but we'd probably all be a bit different/see things slightly differently, if we grew up somewhere else in the world.
As far as consciously influencing plot lines, well I'm writing book 2 at the moment but when we hit book 3 - if I/you/we ever get that far! you'll see our celtic ancestors are shown pretty favorably! :)
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