Ask the Author: Dirk Sayers
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Dirk Sayers
What happened to my father...
Dirk Sayers
Really NOT my genre, but in the interest of stretching horizons...
"After an troubled night of dreaming, my eyes focused on the mirror. The face staring back at me, stopped my heart, with the all the evil I had ever done...or thought of doing...there, for all the world to see."
"After an troubled night of dreaming, my eyes focused on the mirror. The face staring back at me, stopped my heart, with the all the evil I had ever done...or thought of doing...there, for all the world to see."
Dirk Sayers
Wow...singular? I only get one? I'll give you three. From Pride & Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, because of how their mutual regard grew out of mutual distaste. From Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Arcady Kirsanov and Katya Lokteva, because of the complementary way they grow together and the depth of their almost symbiotic understanding. From Winds of War and War & Remembrance, the troubled Leslie Slote and Natalie Jastrow. While they never "stick" as a couple, their bond endures throughout and Slote's eventual death adds poignant depth to an already terrific story.
Dirk Sayers
I live, I read & I keep my eyes open. Stories, insight and inspiration is all around us. It is from life that stories are woven...even the stories of imagination.
Dirk Sayers
I'm working on an anthology of short stories, under the working title, "Through the Windshield." Each story is evocative, thought-provoking...a head-on collision with truth in some form.
Dirk Sayers
Read, write, repeat. While you're at it, never be satisfied with the superficial. Find ways to evoke feelings in your readers. Challenge yourself and your readers to think. The stories I enjoy most are stories that either make me FEEL something or make me think (or both). Not surprisingly, I think those are also the most fulfilling to write.
Dirk Sayers
What I learn about myself in the process of writing.
Dirk Sayers
Usually I go do something else. I surf, snow ski, read, do some wood-working or paint. Sometimes, I'll wax the car, put the top down & go for a drive on the Pacific Coast Highway. Almost any activity helps. My mind doesn't even shut down while I'm sleeping & I think it just knows it's supposed to work on "the block" subconsciously, even when it's not top of mind.
Dirk Sayers
The story line comes from my own observations and a series of "what ifs" growing out of things I've seen others go through. But the overarching impetus for writing this book is the maelstrom of change that is our place in history. I believe that in thirty years, we will look back on the era and realize just how profoundly it has altered our reality. Among the things we will need to get through it is a way of processing it all without becoming disoriented or worse, cynical.
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