Ask the Author: Marc Klein
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Marc Klein
Read as much as you can -- and write even more than you read.
Marc Klein
I have spent most of my career writing movies. When you finish a screenplay, you must hand it over to dozens of other people (producers, directors, studio executives, actors) all of whom want you to make changes; changes that you often don't agree with. This leads to a lot of exhausting creative combat. My experience writing "The In Between" book has been so much more civilized! My brilliant editor only made suggestions -- many of which I took -- but there was not a lot of interference, and I absolutely loved that.
Marc Klein
I am often asked this question by screenwriting students whom I teach. The answer is: I write. When I feel stuck, I trust my unconscious to find a way out.
Marc Klein
Any South American town in any book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I would love to experience magical realism firsthand.
Marc Klein
During the pandemic, I read the first three Elena Ferrante "Neopolitan" novels and I plan on reading the fourth one this summer. I am actually stopping myself from reading it sooner as I know its the final book and I just don't want this story to end. I idolize Ferrante's work -- I have never felt so close and inside a character as I have with Lenu. The level of psychological honesty is breathtaking.
Marc Klein
The initial idea for "The In Between" came to me many years ago after an ex-girlfriend of mine died in a tragic plane crash. In the days following the accident, I believe she attempted to reach out to me – first through my computer, and then through a spine-tingling interaction with an animal.
These powerful experiences launched a years-long quest to understand the concept of ADC's – after death communication. As my curiosity grew, I vowed to find a way to explore this concept in my work.
But it wasn’t until I read "The Tibetan Book of the Dea"d that the idea fully crystalized for me. Buddhism describes an intermissive period called the bardo where souls reside for 49 days after the death of our material bodies. Buddhists believe this period allows us to mourn our earthly lives in order to prepare for our next incarnation.
Armed with these two supernatural ideas, I set out to write a tear-inducing romance in the vein of Ghost (one of my favorite films as a teenager.) My hope is that readers will not only be swept away by Tessa and Skylar’s love story, but will open their minds to the possibility that life does not end even when our physical bodies do.
As the eminent psychologist Carl Jung once wrote: “Death is drawing together of two worlds, not an end. We are the bridge.”
These powerful experiences launched a years-long quest to understand the concept of ADC's – after death communication. As my curiosity grew, I vowed to find a way to explore this concept in my work.
But it wasn’t until I read "The Tibetan Book of the Dea"d that the idea fully crystalized for me. Buddhism describes an intermissive period called the bardo where souls reside for 49 days after the death of our material bodies. Buddhists believe this period allows us to mourn our earthly lives in order to prepare for our next incarnation.
Armed with these two supernatural ideas, I set out to write a tear-inducing romance in the vein of Ghost (one of my favorite films as a teenager.) My hope is that readers will not only be swept away by Tessa and Skylar’s love story, but will open their minds to the possibility that life does not end even when our physical bodies do.
As the eminent psychologist Carl Jung once wrote: “Death is drawing together of two worlds, not an end. We are the bridge.”
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