Jennifer
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Scott Hawkins:
I am almost done on reading your book and I love it. Are you in the process of writing another fiction book?
Scott Hawkins
Hey Jennifer,
First, thanks for asking. As it happens, YES. A couple weeks ago I finished the first draft of a new book. It's still a good long ways from being ready to start showing to people, but it has a beginning, middle and end. That, for me, is a bigger milestone than it is for a lot of people. A lot of writers know how their story will end before they start, but I tend to just wing it. That's great in terms of creative freedom, but more than once I've ended up stuck in a dead end.
The new story is a standalone, unrelated to Mount Char. If you can imagine Looney Tunes doing a hard-boiled / noir detective version of Scooby Doo investigating the Exorcist, that's kind of the ballpark I'm aiming for. (For comparison, I pitched Mount Char as "Monty Python presents the Godfather starring the X-Men.)
Thanks for asking!
Best,
Scott
First, thanks for asking. As it happens, YES. A couple weeks ago I finished the first draft of a new book. It's still a good long ways from being ready to start showing to people, but it has a beginning, middle and end. That, for me, is a bigger milestone than it is for a lot of people. A lot of writers know how their story will end before they start, but I tend to just wing it. That's great in terms of creative freedom, but more than once I've ended up stuck in a dead end.
The new story is a standalone, unrelated to Mount Char. If you can imagine Looney Tunes doing a hard-boiled / noir detective version of Scooby Doo investigating the Exorcist, that's kind of the ballpark I'm aiming for. (For comparison, I pitched Mount Char as "Monty Python presents the Godfather starring the X-Men.)
Thanks for asking!
Best,
Scott
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It's a trivial detail but... I'm going to ask it anyway to satisfy my curiosity. If Carolyn's catalog is to know every other language there is, including the language of animals, why does she still have a difficult time communicating with Michael? Sticking only to her own catalog, can Carolyn learn the language of animals up to a certain depth? Or did I just misunderstand that part of the novel?
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Jan 25, 2018 04:04PM · flag