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Margaret Atwood:
Do you think Suzanne Collins might have been inspired by your work while she was writing the Hunger Games?
Margaret Atwood
Hello: That would be a question you might ask her, but I think we were both drawing water from the same well: for me, in the MaddAddam trilogy and the Painball sequences, the story of Theseus and the Minotaur (excellent novel version is Mary Renault's novel, The King Must Die) and
Roman gladatorial combat; and, in my case, the game of Paintball. These
kinds of combat stories are very ancient. And, come to think of it, every time you watch a football game…
Roman gladatorial combat; and, in my case, the game of Paintball. These
kinds of combat stories are very ancient. And, come to think of it, every time you watch a football game…
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Margaret Atwood:
In my life thus far as a writer I've come across two camps of successful (in the publishing sense) writers - those that plan their novel manuscripts before contemplating the start of writing them, and those that 'wing it'. How much planning goes into your work? I clearly see a level of planning, how much time do you spend on it? And does your research come before, during or after the planning stage?
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Can you a come up with a deleted scene from your favorite Shakespeare play?
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