In any event I read a lot of everything I could find. Touch typing actually solved the later problem as not trying to write by hand but moving fingers in a specific pattern is different neural pathways in the brain. I had an undiagnosed reading disorder, a binocular dysfunction, that’s a tiny bit like dyslexia, so it took me a while to get the hang of the reading thing, and played hob with my trying to spell.
I started reading about 8 or 9, seriously. When did you start reading? And what books/series did you read over and over again? Eventually the guilt sets in and I get back to work.
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I learned years ago that if I get up from the computer and flip on the TV (I’m a news hound), I can blow an hour or two in the day, so I avoid that by hitting social media, or playing a little on the computer. Then the rest of my day is spent either in front of the computer, most of the time, or puttering around trying to keep my home from being too much of a mess. While the coffee drips I quickly check a few things like email to see if I have something I need to respond to quickly, check a bit of the headlines and often repost certain things I find amusing or interesting to my social media, just to let my fans and friends know I’m still kicking.
I tend to rise early (sometimes too early if insomnia rears its ugly head), and get the coffee going. What does a typical writing day look like for you? So my first instinct is to create a character the reader can relate to in some fashion, either care about, dislike, find amusing, or just want to know more because the character is odd, then drop them in a difficult situation and see how they handle it. So without being aware at the time, I was learning that characters drive plots and plots drive stories. My step-father was a writer/producer/director in Hollywood, and my entire life I was surrounded by people making a living telling stories. I don’t think I ‘connect,” as much as I craft. I was also influenced by fantasy role playing in college, which set the world in which I began my stories. By the time I started writing, the pulps and Boys Adventure were gone, unless you tossed a dragon or wizard into the story. I ate to fantasy like a lot of people with Lord of the Rings about 1966 when the paperbacks took off.
It was all about “other mysterious places,” which when I was a kid was “darkest Africa,” and “the mysterious Orient,” and the Caribbean and pirates. Costain and Mary Renault to Alexandre Dumas and Rafael Sabatini. That led me to the historical novelist and adventure novelists from Thomas B. I also read some of the pulp writers, R.E.Howard (Solomon Kane, mostly, not Conan), A. What elements of fantasy make you like reading and writing in the genre?įor me it was my early reading, which was in a category of publishing know as “Boys Adventure Tales.” Everything from Tom Swift and the Hardy Boys to classics like Robert Louis Stevenson, and Sir Walter Scott. The primary features of a simpler technological world demand more reliance on courage, wit, reliance on trusted companions, and all the other common tropes of fantasy adventure. If Frodo could jump on a swift jet and zoom to Mount Doom, and just drop the ring in the mouth of the volcano, we’ve got a very short trilogy. The trappings of a feudal, middle age type culture, reduce the availability of technical solutions, be it in communications, travel, weapons, etc.
Why do we find ourselves connecting so deeply to narratives set in the past, whether they are in a secondary world or the real one? Master of Furies, the conclusion to his Firemane Saga, will be released May 11th 2023. Feist, fantasy author of The Riftwar Cycle and much more! I am so pleased to introduce our interview with Raymond E.
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