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Tommy Wallach:
Dear Tommy- How are you able to find your voice when you write? Do you have a certain process that you use to begin your story ideas? And finally, what's one of your weirdest bits of inspiration for some of your works?
Tommy Wallach
Hey Jojo Question,
Sorry for the slowness on my response here. Like most authors, I always have about a hundred ideas competing for my attention. I've decided never to write them down, allowing forgetfulness to serve a sort of curatorial function. In other words, I figure the good ideas will "stick" in my head, and the bad ideas will disappear. As for inspiration, nothing too weird: WALU came from Lars von Trier's "Melancholia," Thanks was a combination of "Let the Right One In" and "Before Sunrise," and Strange Fire came out of my love of Philip Pullman and "A Canticle for Leibowitz." There ya go!
Sorry for the slowness on my response here. Like most authors, I always have about a hundred ideas competing for my attention. I've decided never to write them down, allowing forgetfulness to serve a sort of curatorial function. In other words, I figure the good ideas will "stick" in my head, and the bad ideas will disappear. As for inspiration, nothing too weird: WALU came from Lars von Trier's "Melancholia," Thanks was a combination of "Let the Right One In" and "Before Sunrise," and Strange Fire came out of my love of Philip Pullman and "A Canticle for Leibowitz." There ya go!
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