Ask the Author: Scott R. Larson
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Scott R. Larson
The only two mourners to view Ezra MacCready's body late that night remained alone with the coffin for a very long time. Unable to wait any longer, the funeral director went to check - only to have the lights go out suddenly.
Scott R. Larson
I would have to go to the first imagined world that really caught my imagination: J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. But I would probably just stick to the Shire, spending time drinking lots of tea and eating cakes with Hobbits. That seems safer than other parts of Middle-earth.
Scott R. Larson
As much as I really want to do more reading, it is kind of hard right now since I am in the middle of finishing up the writing and editing of my own new book. I have Mark Frost's The Secret History of Twin Peaks which someone was generous enough to give me as a gift so that is top of the list. I also have dreams of re-reading García Márquez's 100 Years of Solitude and Vargas Llosa's The War of the End of the World for the first time in many moons.
Scott R. Larson
The answer, I suppose, would similar to most other people's. Things like... Whatever happened to that friend in high school you sometimes still think about? What if I had taken that job offer or, alternatively, had not taken that offer? I think the mystery at the heart of my first book (and my upcoming book, which is sort of a sequel) is... What might my life have been like if I had made different choices or if I had had different parents? Aren't those the sort of questions that are the basis of all fiction?
Scott R. Larson
You mean besides the ones I have created myself? In literary terms, I would have to go with Catherine and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. My inner teenager, though, wants to say Barnabas and Josette from the 1960s TV series Dark Shadows. Theirs was the perfect, unattainable, star-crossed romance.
Scott R. Larson
That's never really been a problem for me. I suppose there are sometimes days when I am tired or can't concentrate, but I find that if I sit down and just write something--anything--the next thing I know I am off and away as usual.
Scott R. Larson
For me it's a feeling of satisfaction, of seeing something you have thought about and worked on for a long time becoming something real. If other people like it, that's a great feeling.
Scott R. Larson
Writers always say the same thing, and it's true. You have to write something every day.
Scott R. Larson
I'm part way through a fantasy story that, in some ways, parallels the story in Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead. I am also in various stages of books about the 1980s Seattle software scene, rural Ireland at the height of the Celtic Tiger and a sequel to MaCAD.
Scott R. Larson
The stories just come to me. Sometimes I have to stop everything and write down what's in my head because I'm afraid I'm going to lose it. I never have to wait for inspiration. I just have to keep finding time to write.
Scott R. Larson
I had the idea for Maximilian and Carlotta Are Dead for quite a while. It came out of my own experiences growing up in the San Joaquin Valley and also from my experiences in Latin America. Originally, it was to be about the Tommy character, but in the end Tommy became a character who is mentioned but never appears.
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