Ask the Author: Keith McTaggart
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Keith McTaggart
Write something - start in a totally different part of the story and write a scene or a description. You may not use the piece eventually, but that is true for everything you write anyway - Your editor might wield a very sharp sword!
Keith McTaggart
Self satisfaction and pride that you have told the story you wanted to tell as well as you could tell it, in the way you wanted to tell it, in your own style. After that it is nice for someone else to tell you they liked it. Even to sell it and earn from it but that may not happen. It doesn't happen for most people - JKR's are ultra rare.
Keith McTaggart
Just write, trying to do the best you can in your second and third drafts. In the first draft, just get it down on paper. Read lots of other people's work in different genres. Find a critical friend or join a writing group or both. Join courses at a local writing centre.
Keith McTaggart
I am painstakingly doing a final edit of a manuscript for young people from age eleven up - Alex and the Submarine. A peaceful sailing voyage in a yacht is disturbed by criminals and Alex, sister Jess and new friend Tam have to behave heroically to survive and help others too.
Plus there is a sequel to Collingwood Flat underway ...
Plus there is a sequel to Collingwood Flat underway ...
Keith McTaggart
I like to make people laugh and enjoy tales, but it takes a great story idea to get me moving.
Keith McTaggart
About twenty-five years ago, I wrote with Paul Saddler, a book for school kids for Melbourne Water about sewerage - Flushing Dunnies. During research i found out that there had been a shanty town on the Collingwood Flat after the 1850's gold rush. Collingwood is now an inner suburb of Melbourne. Now shanty town meant petty criminals didn't it? And gangs and takeovers and someone to step up and take on the bad guys - it just called out for a book about crime, detectives, brothel keepers and lovers - hence, Collingwood Flat!
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