Ask the Author: Tim Weed
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Tim Weed
Thanks Ron. Got a few books on my list first, but your words make me look forward to reading it even more! Hope all is well with you.
Tim Weed
Hi Kallie. Here are three links: one where I discuss his masterpiece novel, The Sheltering Sky (http://bit.ly/1au5Hv9), and two others that discuss his fascinating stories, "A Distant Episode" (http://bit.ly/1cuiy1Y) and "The Red Room" (http://bit.ly/1mZT7Ki). Hope these are helpful!
Tim Weed
It's pretty simple, really. Write every day. And read. A lot. Especially, but not exclusively, the books and stories you yourself would want to write.
Tim Weed
I don't believe in writer's block. You just have to show up every day. Make it a habit, and it becomes indispensable. Keep putting words on the page, even if they're crap. You can always throw them away. But at least you're writing!
Tim Weed
Anyone who has published a novel understands the surreal process of trying to promote a project you wrote what seems like two lifetimes ago. That is the case for Will Poole’s Island, although it has in fact been an unexpected pleasure to re-immerse myself in the world of the book in order to create presentations, op-eds, interviews, and supporting materials for book groups, teachers, and members of the press.
But I do continue to write every day, and I feel a more intimate connection to the project I’m working on now, which early-draft superstition prevents me from discussing other than to say that it is a contemporary novel set on two well-known islands. Also on the drawing board is another historical novel based on the true story of two young highwaymen from the British Isles who emigrate to early 19th century New England. More to come, I hope, on both of these projects.
But I do continue to write every day, and I feel a more intimate connection to the project I’m working on now, which early-draft superstition prevents me from discussing other than to say that it is a contemporary novel set on two well-known islands. Also on the drawing board is another historical novel based on the true story of two young highwaymen from the British Isles who emigrate to early 19th century New England. More to come, I hope, on both of these projects.
Tim Weed
The novel was a long time in the making. I’d been doing some historical research related to my ancestors, who’d been early English settlers of New England in the 1630s. I also have Native American ancestors, and I was intrigued by the collision between these two very different cultures. The fact is that there isn’t all much known about that interaction – we have hearsay and scattered archaeological remains. The written historical record is actually rather sparse, and it's entirely from the English perspective. So in a sense the story came to me because I passionately wanted to know more about a certain time and place, and fiction was the only way I had to get beyond the limited picture I was developing from my research.
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