Ask the Author: Terry Irving
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Terry Irving
He lives in Panama. Really.
I'll let him know you're looking to connect.
I'll let him know you're looking to connect.
Terry Irving
Dirck? One the best photographers anywhere anywhen. He was just up in DC for one of Tony Hirashiki's book readings.
Terry Irving
Being able to work in jeans and Hawaiian shirts. It's certainly not the money.
Terry Irving
What's writer's block?
I have suffered writer's boredom but never a block. Again, refer back to the instant deadlines and incessant screaming of television news.
I have suffered writer's boredom but never a block. Again, refer back to the instant deadlines and incessant screaming of television news.
Terry Irving
Write and then have someone yell at you for writing badly.
What? It worked for me.
It also helps to have a deadline. Say, a great paragraph in the next minute.
Yes, I wrote for television new for 25 years and often rewrote on the prompter as it was rolling to the anchor. It's a good teacher.
What? It worked for me.
It also helps to have a deadline. Say, a great paragraph in the next minute.
Yes, I wrote for television new for 25 years and often rewrote on the prompter as it was rolling to the anchor. It's a good teacher.
Terry Irving
Since the sequel to Courier was finished and accepted almost a year ago, I'm trying out a new genre: paranormal thriller in the vein of Jim Butcher and Kim Harrison (I should ever write that well!) The central concept is that there is a 9/11 style attack but it's mystics rather than religious terrorists and the effects are magical rather than political, social, and criminal.
In other words, a Washington DC where the Democrats are Elvish and the Republicans are Dwarfs (even if they are tall).
In other words, a Washington DC where the Democrats are Elvish and the Republicans are Dwarfs (even if they are tall).
Terry Irving
I read an article in Atlantic in 1976 and had to wait for the Internet to be invented before I found it again. It was written by Renata Adler and it had an alternate but extremely plausible reason for President Nixon's resignation. Combine that with the vivid recollections of being a motorcycle courier in 1973 and, WHAM, Courier.
Terry Irving
I'm unemployed due to no fault of my own, there is an illegal agreement among all DC media outlets not to hire me, and the dog is starving.
Need any more inspiration than that?
Need any more inspiration than that?
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