Ask the Author: Corky Farmer
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Corky Farmer
After a long night of doing taxes, I woke up on the Russian front in the fall of 1944 according to the bloody envelope in my left hand. Facing the enemy onslaught, a grenade in my right hand, I realized the uniform I was wearing was German.
Corky Farmer
Freedom.
I decide where and what my characters do. Writers are bound by themselves only.
I decide where and what my characters do. Writers are bound by themselves only.
Corky Farmer
In one case, it was as simple as a meaningless (at the time) conversation. In another case, I was reading non-fiction and wondered, "What if they turned right instead of going straight." I research and study (they are not the same thing) the setting which also inspires characters and story direction.
Corky Farmer
I had a great-grandfather who would disappear for long stretches. During the Depression (1930s) he would hitchhike north from east Texas and be dropped off by a certain bridge where he would strip down to a loincloth and walk off into the distance with one or two other native American men. No one knows where they went or why... no one asked.
Corky Farmer
One project in rough draft and soon to be edited is a mystery sci-fi set in early 1990s small-town Texas. A young woman having graduated returns from the city to prepare to enter the real world. While working on a project dear to her, she reconnects with friends and her past and discovers that her hometown isn't as simple as she had grown up believing.
Corky Farmer
I write something else. Anything. I change something in my day-to-day.
Corky Farmer
I was discussing the writing I had done in the past with a friend and was asked about my absence from writing. After sending a couple of examples of unfinished manuscripts that were at various stages of story development, they kept turning the conversation to a minor character in one of the stories. Thinking about it later, I decided to write an entirely different story than what actually ended up on the pages.
Initially, I had a serial killer that gets thrust into a war zone after stealing the identity of a young man that was enlisting in the army during peacetime (spoiler! War breaks out!). By the time I got the story moving along, the path and characters changed. The story sometimes begins with an idea that gets swept away long before the finished work is ready for editing. What changed the story was the research and the characters becoming human.
Initially, I had a serial killer that gets thrust into a war zone after stealing the identity of a young man that was enlisting in the army during peacetime (spoiler! War breaks out!). By the time I got the story moving along, the path and characters changed. The story sometimes begins with an idea that gets swept away long before the finished work is ready for editing. What changed the story was the research and the characters becoming human.
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