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Have you ever come to a frontier in your work that you've felt hesitant to explore? If yes, how did you overcome it? If no, what words of advice might you offer to writers who have difficulty actualizing their work -- getting out of their own heads, say, and onto the page? (Ironic, right, because the head is the fountain for so much of what we do.)
Andre Bagoo All the time. To writers out there encountering that hesitation or discomfort, I'd say lean into it. When something feels difficult, I think it's more likely to be true. By all means stay in your head if you wish but bring all of your insecurities to bear in service of whatever you are writing.
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How do you deal with writer’s block?
Andre Bagoo I've not yet had writer's block. I don't have the time. I think when the writing is not coming, it means that you're not yet meant to write. The mind writes what it wants to write and when it's ready to write. If the writing is not coming, keep writing but in your mind. Sometimes "writing" means thinking, musing, or just letting things fix themselves. Other times, it means crafting like hell.
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What’s the best thing about being a writer?
Andre Bagoo The best thing is - without a doubt - connecting with readers.
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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?
Andre Bagoo As an aspiring writer myself, I'd say read, write with no respite.
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What are you currently working on?
Andre Bagoo Am thinking of more poems. Thinking. I'd like to do a kind of sequel to BURN, but haven't figured the form this could take as yet. I just know that I still want to inhabit the spaces I made in that book in some way. Also, am reading the poetry of Eric Roach, a key Trinidadian poet, and reviewing the work of many Caribbean poets. In between all of this, I like to research things, write about the lives of others.
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How do you get inspired to write?
Andre Bagoo Ideas can come at any moment: driving in a taxi, in-between wakefulness and sleep; at the cinema; at the office; on an assignment; in the shower. First a single line or concept might come. And then I let it sit. I mull for a while. Until I feel I can attempt.
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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?
Andre Bagoo BURN started from two main sources: newspaper clippings; and the streets of Port-of-Spain. I was writing material over the course of years, and suddenly I felt things were beginning to resonate, saw relationships. That's when I felt this could work as a book; could stand as a coherent, thematic whole.
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