David Jones's Blog, page 1184
August 9, 2013
August 8, 2013
Being a writer #3 : Knowing what to write but not knowing how to put is on paper so you stare at a blank page for hours
Ohh I know that feeling!! Knowing the essence of the story, everything that should be but not quite being able to actually force it onto paper. Writer’s block!! I always try and take some time away when that happens, just relax and let the ideas grow in my mind - its not a pleasant experience though!!
10 Quotes from Lilith’s Tears.
This one is from quite...
10 Quotes from Lilith’s Tears.
This one is from quite early on in the novel - its when Trebane first arrives on the island, utterly alone, utterly adrift, completely severed from the life he once knew, the people he once knew and the woman he loves. Lying on that beach beneath the burning sun, trapped in an alien and unknown world, a place that, according to the maps, doesn’t even exist, Trebane really does feel complete and utter despair - he has lost everything. Its quite a sorrowful point i...
The love that Torn feels in Lilith’s Tears is the darkest kind of love. I wanted to create a...
The love that Torn feels in Lilith’s Tears is the darkest kind of love. I wanted to create a character that was deep, not just an over the top villain where everyone goes “he’s behind you!’ in pantomime fashion, but a character that was bad: an evil character, a dark character with true depth. And when someone that dark, with such a capability for destruction and evil, even love becomes something terrifying. First of all its something he doesn’t understand in the...
August 7, 2013
10 Quotes from Lilith’s Tears.
This is one of my favourite...
10 Quotes from Lilith’s Tears.
This is one of my favourite and most important quotes from the novel. Its from quite near the end and it sums up one of the major themes of the book - the dark romance. Torn’s love is a dark type of love, a destructive, deadly type of love, and in this quote you finally see to what lengths he would go - he literally would ruin heaven, give away Paradise for his love. Its not healthy, its an obsession. Dark and deadly, this quote sums Torn’s love up, but when you...
