Will Daggett

Will Daggett asked Mark Lawrence:

Hey Mark! So it looks like you have a crazy life outside of just writing, what with being some kind of rocket scientist and what not. How did you manage to make time to write? Also, how old were you when you started? I'm looking to start writing soon, but there always seems to be something demanding too much of me to really make time for it (right now the CPA exam). Thoughts? P.S. You should visit Boston sometime!

Mark Lawrence These days I write fulltime:
http://mark---lawrence.blogspot.co.uk...

But I wrote King of Thorns and Emperor of Thorns in the same year while working.

300 words a day will get you a book a year. At 60wpm 300 words will take you 5 minutes.

The answer is: don't write unless you have the sort of restless imagination that demands you do.

I was 31 when I started writing fiction, but I had been GMing D&D since I was 11 and running a PBM game for 10 years before that. And those are sorts of writing.

I have been to Boston several times (I collaborated on projects with scientists at MIT) but these days I don't travel:

http://mark---lawrence.blogspot.co.uk...

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Cadeyrn Kearney

Cadeyrn Kearney asked Mark Lawrence:

RE: Here is an interesting 13 minute talk on 'Evil' Heroes. If you have the time to spare, I would love to hear your immediate thoughts on this talk. As a person whom I consider experienced in the subject matter, could you perhaps say a word or two on what you might have added or changed to this? Link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTRCMBAugII [It should appear before this. If not, then I blame GoodReads.]

A Goodreads user

A Goodreads user asked Mark Lawrence:

First off, fuck you. Used to be able to run through pretty much anything fiction in a sitting, now I can't even remember the last book I finished. Jorg's character has been sitting in my head ever since I read Prince of Thorns and I'm unable to shake his realistic philosophy from my thoughts. Any recommendations for something similar, other than ACO? (Best chapter I've ever read was No other Troy)

Steve Kimmins

Steve Kimmins asked Mark Lawrence:

Looking to the future are you tempted to write anything that’d fall more into the Horror category? You seem to enjoy Stephen King, for example. I think there’s often not much difference between darker, realistic, fantasy and the horror genre. Maybe the main difference is the world in which it’s set, with ‘conventional horror’ being more contemporary, in our world?

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