Ask the Author: Mau VanDuren
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Mau VanDuren
Stop writing. I was obviously working on something I know nothing about.
Mau VanDuren
You're never bored. With the current Covid19 social distancing, etc. I find it quite delightful to create away.
Mau VanDuren
Write what you know, or think you know. Yes, you can fantasize around that, but never try to write what you don't know. Use your personal experiences or those of others who related them to you.
Mau VanDuren
I write by the axiom that you can't write what you don't know. Therefore I only write what I do know (or think I know). Once I have defined the story outline, setting, and characters, the stories pretty much write themselves and all I do is write it down.
Mau VanDuren
The book I am currently working on is a continuation of the four novellas I wrote in the late 1980s. The protagonist, Peter Mbinji, P.I., was then in his late thirties and single. In the new novella he has turned sixty and has become introspective. This leads to a reevaluation of an old friendship with a woman in Kampala, Uganda, and a dangerous adventure in the border areas of Uganda, the Sudan, and Kenya.
Mau VanDuren
The book I am currently working on is a continuation of the four novellas I wrote in the late 1980s. The protagonist, Peter Mbinji, P.I., was then in his late thirties and single. In the new novella he has turned sixty and has become introspective. This leads to a reevaluation of an old friendship with a woman in Kampala, Uganda, and a dangerous adventure in the border areas of Uganda, the Sudan, and Kenya.
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