Ask the Author: Courtney Carr
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Courtney Carr
"I will tag you in this on Facebook," she said.
"I don't really use social media," he replied.
"I don't really use social media," he replied.
Courtney Carr
I've been searching my brain for an answer to this question, and I don't really have one. I think it's because while I do read stories that have couples in them, I don't really read romances and don't get swept up in the drama of those "will they/wont they" relationships, or the stories where one heroine has to choose between two moody men. I'm not a romantic and I don't gravitate to these stories.
The characters of Victoria and Max Stone in my novel Cosmic Decay: Contamination are in a rock solid relationship because this is my experience. I don't buy that romance is the sweeping dramatic affair it is in books. I guess based on that, a fictional couple that I find rock solid would be the pairing of Molly and Niel Sloan in my favourite novel The Taking by Dean Koontz. They go through similar circumstances as Victoria and Max do, and they remain rock solid as well, though individualistic with their own motivations.
I get more involved in fictional couples on TV shows then I do in novels and fiction. Leslie and Ben from Parks and Recreation are my most beloved couple because while they do have the dramatic arch required in the show's storytelling, they are rock solid as well in their pairing. They would be my favourite couple, though not entirely fictional.
The characters of Victoria and Max Stone in my novel Cosmic Decay: Contamination are in a rock solid relationship because this is my experience. I don't buy that romance is the sweeping dramatic affair it is in books. I guess based on that, a fictional couple that I find rock solid would be the pairing of Molly and Niel Sloan in my favourite novel The Taking by Dean Koontz. They go through similar circumstances as Victoria and Max do, and they remain rock solid as well, though individualistic with their own motivations.
I get more involved in fictional couples on TV shows then I do in novels and fiction. Leslie and Ben from Parks and Recreation are my most beloved couple because while they do have the dramatic arch required in the show's storytelling, they are rock solid as well in their pairing. They would be my favourite couple, though not entirely fictional.
Courtney Carr
I leave it and walk away and do something else. Sometimes it last hours, sometimes days, and sometimes months. I try and work ahead of myself, especially in the case for my blog The Party Connection so that the work is still going even when I can't, but I know that eventually I'll find something that inspires me again.
It could be just a flash of something, an idea, a word, a piece of music. Something will spark eventually - You just have to go live a little.
It could be just a flash of something, an idea, a word, a piece of music. Something will spark eventually - You just have to go live a little.
Courtney Carr
Letting your imagination run wild! Nothing is off limits
Courtney Carr
Promotion for Cosmic Decay: Contamination, before I can get stuck into the second Cosmic Decay novel.
Courtney Carr
A lot of the time I am inspired when I plug myself into my iPod and listen to emotive music and then go out into the world - into nature, for a walk, down the street, anywhere. My ideas come to the beat of the music and the world around me.
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