WHY I WRITE THRILLERS, PART I
As far back as I can remember I’ve always been a reader. When I graduated from the FARAWAY TREE series by Enid Blyton, I began devouring her other stories, THE ADVENTUROUS FOUR soon becoming my favourite. Sadly, there were only two novels in this series, but I think I could relate to the spirit of these four youngsters more than I could to the FAMOUS FIVE. At this time, TREASURE ISLAND was also a favourite. Deep down, I guess I wanted to live an adventurous life: I wanted to explore exotic places and outsmart the baddies.
While at primary school, I began to plot scenarios for my two sisters, my brother and myself to act out in our yard. I guess you could call these early writing experiments PLAYS WITHOUT DIALOGUE. I’d write the action scenes and direct my siblings in the manner I wanted them to unfold. Each of us played multiple roles. This sort of activity would often engage us for weeks at a time, with me adding new scenes on a daily basis as my imagination raced hither and thither.
During my teenage years, I discovered science fiction, my taste gravitating towards fantastic adventures on strange, faraway worlds. Edgar Rice Burroughs quickly became my favourite author, especially his TARZAN, MARS and VENUS series. I devoured every new release (well, re-release really) I could get my hands on. I wanted to be Tarzan, John Carter and Carson Napier all rolled into one. Their exciting lives seemed, in a way, more real than my own. (They were certainly more exciting.)
Around this time, I abandoned writing for my siblings and turned my hand to penning short stories. By the time the 60s arrived, these were usually set right here on Earth, on a planet that was recovering from some sort of nuclear war, and my characters were the survivors of this holocaust. (Remember, this was a time when the threat of nuclear attack was uppermost in the minds of most of the world’s population.) Later, my characters travelled to alien worlds, using a form of teleportation that I had no idea how to explain. To this point, I was writing frequently, churning out stories at a rapid rate, but I concentrated solely on science fiction.
Why then, do I now write thrillers? I will try to answer that question in Part II of this series.
Enjoy this? You're sure to love my new novel.
Intrigue at Sandy Point, The Oz Files, Book 2
While at primary school, I began to plot scenarios for my two sisters, my brother and myself to act out in our yard. I guess you could call these early writing experiments PLAYS WITHOUT DIALOGUE. I’d write the action scenes and direct my siblings in the manner I wanted them to unfold. Each of us played multiple roles. This sort of activity would often engage us for weeks at a time, with me adding new scenes on a daily basis as my imagination raced hither and thither.
During my teenage years, I discovered science fiction, my taste gravitating towards fantastic adventures on strange, faraway worlds. Edgar Rice Burroughs quickly became my favourite author, especially his TARZAN, MARS and VENUS series. I devoured every new release (well, re-release really) I could get my hands on. I wanted to be Tarzan, John Carter and Carson Napier all rolled into one. Their exciting lives seemed, in a way, more real than my own. (They were certainly more exciting.)
Around this time, I abandoned writing for my siblings and turned my hand to penning short stories. By the time the 60s arrived, these were usually set right here on Earth, on a planet that was recovering from some sort of nuclear war, and my characters were the survivors of this holocaust. (Remember, this was a time when the threat of nuclear attack was uppermost in the minds of most of the world’s population.) Later, my characters travelled to alien worlds, using a form of teleportation that I had no idea how to explain. To this point, I was writing frequently, churning out stories at a rapid rate, but I concentrated solely on science fiction.
Why then, do I now write thrillers? I will try to answer that question in Part II of this series.
Enjoy this? You're sure to love my new novel.
Intrigue at Sandy Point, The Oz Files, Book 2
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