Ask the Author: D.E. Osborne
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D.E. Osborne
The best thing about being a writer is exploring my fantasies. Sometimes those explorations have to be cut from the final product because they are too... much.
For instance in Smiley's Run when Jason rescued his ex-partner from the Chinese mafia in Chicago, I originally wrote a scene so gross with missing eyeballs and other abuses that first readers stopped reading the book. Fantasies are wonderful but sometime they go too far.
For instance in Smiley's Run when Jason rescued his ex-partner from the Chinese mafia in Chicago, I originally wrote a scene so gross with missing eyeballs and other abuses that first readers stopped reading the book. Fantasies are wonderful but sometime they go too far.
D.E. Osborne
I was adopted. The investigation into what happened with my parents and why they gave me away troubled me most of my life. In the end what I know about them still leaves more questions than answers.
I'd like to use this experience in another Jason Smiley story. It's Noir enough to be interesting.
I'd like to use this experience in another Jason Smiley story. It's Noir enough to be interesting.
D.E. Osborne
Jamie and Claire Fraser from the Outlander series. Aside from having some of the most extraordinary luck they are dynamic and fully realized characters that feel like real people despite their exceptional characteristics.
D.E. Osborne
I play guitar, or video games or write political bs on facebook, or scratch myself.... pretty much anything but actually doing the work.
The only answer to writers block is to write anything. At worst its junk and gets thrown out, At best there is an idea that makes the whole story soar.
The only answer to writers block is to write anything. At worst its junk and gets thrown out, At best there is an idea that makes the whole story soar.
D.E. Osborne
First write. Second write some more. Third Finish what you work on. And forth remember you aren't Moses or Mohammed and the words you scribbled down aren't from God's mouth to your ear. Everything is subject to rewrite. Fix it, cut it, shape it, polish it until it sings, and then get someone who knows what they're doing to tear it apart.
Then start over again until its as good as you can make it.
Then start over again until its as good as you can make it.
D.E. Osborne
I have a couple of stories I'm 'working on'. One is a prequel to Smiley's Run and the other is a psychic thriller that precipitated Smiley's Run
D.E. Osborne
Relationships inspire me. People, or my perceptions of people's characters, inspire me. Situations I never see in my normal life inspire me... Great writing inspires me to write, not as imitation but as contest.
D.E. Osborne
I got the idea for Smiley's run from a scene I wrote in an unrelated novel. A reviewer said I wrote great noir. I liked the idea and pursued it.
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