Ask the Author: Kathe Koja
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Kathe Koja
There’s nowhere inspiration isn’t. What you can use depends on what we’re looking to write, where your own radar is pointed. And your own pantheon of writers may, and should, change as your work evolves.
What helped me grow as a writer, from the very beginning until now, is reading, reading, reading. Reading for research, for pleasure, reading everything.
What helped me grow as a writer, from the very beginning until now, is reading, reading, reading. Reading for research, for pleasure, reading everything.
Kathe Koja
I think the character decides where the story should start, and a writer should pay close attention to that decision.
Kathe Koja
The Cipher has been optioned for film multiple times, and is under option now -- I'll gladly share news as I have it. Although let's don't get Nakota to direct . . . #filmthefunhole
Kathe Koja
Yes, absolutely. What's essential is making sure the time you have for writing is time spent focused only on writing.
My background is blue collar, and that's helped rather than hindered my own writing life: it taught me early to expect to work for a living.
My background is blue collar, and that's helped rather than hindered my own writing life: it taught me early to expect to work for a living.
Kathe Koja
Ask all five questions at once, please, and I'll answer all at once.
Kathe Koja
Very shortly! As soon as I have that date I'll post.
Kathe Koja
My newest book, CHRISTOPHER WILD, was sparked by its subject, the poet, playwright, freethinker and all-around badass Christopher Marlowe. His fearless, timeless work is just as challenging now as it was in Elizabethan England, when he wrote the most popular and incendiary plays in London.
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