Ask the Author: Patrick Tylee
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Patrick Tylee
What fortune it is to stumble upon a hospital's waiting list for organ transplants. My knife sharpened and zip-ties in the pocket, I'm off to round up some donors.
Patrick Tylee
If I could, I'd go 'down' to Pellucidar, the hollow Earth. I would...sell solar panels...and evade the sabertooth lions. Not necessarily in that order.
Patrick Tylee
Books on my summer reading list?
Two from my friend and beta-reader, Jenn Windrow.
Evil's Unlikely Assassin and Evil's Ultimate Huntress.
Also read Ray Bradbury's classic, Something Wicked This Way Comes,
And Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov.
Two from my friend and beta-reader, Jenn Windrow.
Evil's Unlikely Assassin and Evil's Ultimate Huntress.
Also read Ray Bradbury's classic, Something Wicked This Way Comes,
And Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov.
Patrick Tylee
A mystery in my own life?
I have a very strong electro-magnetic field that emanates from my body.
Whenever I walk past a television, a radio, or other device that is supposed to be receiving some other signal, it picks up me instead.
Usually just static. To which my wife will attest!
- PT
I have a very strong electro-magnetic field that emanates from my body.
Whenever I walk past a television, a radio, or other device that is supposed to be receiving some other signal, it picks up me instead.
Usually just static. To which my wife will attest!
- PT
Patrick Tylee
Nope. I like my bugs small enough to stomp on. :)
Patrick Tylee
Herbert could peel the onion, to get through the layers of the character's psyche. He took us from the obvious external façade of what the character wanted everyone to see, into the subtle feelings and hopes, then into the fears and longing, and finally deep into their soul. Some, like Jessica or Liet Kynes, were fairly easy to transition thru. Others, like Chani, or Gurney Halleck (and later his gholla), were a more profound journey. Before I start Page One of a novel, I'm laying out the list of characters and how they will interact. It takes at least a week to just get a handful where I think their head will be at by the middle of the book. It is hard work, and Herbert could do it all day with excellence.
Patrick Tylee
My niece told me to write a story about a young couple who sail off on a ship together. She forgot to say what kind of ship.
Patrick Tylee
I'm on chapter five of my third full-length sci-fi, which is in the YA Fiction genre. Boy meets girl. Boy meets a second girl. First girl gets mad. Second girl get more mad and destroys the planet.
Girls.
Girls.
Patrick Tylee
If I get stuck in the development of a scene or a character, I'll go for a drive or a ride on the motorcycle. Out there somewhere will be an inspiring person, place or thing. I take lots of notes or send myself an email with the details I need to have when I return.
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