Alexandra Murphy
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David Wong:
First of all, thank you. For your sense of humor, your writing style, your characters, your responses to FAQs, your Cracked articles, your hilarious Animal Crossing tweets, and, most importantly, for continuing to write new books! Secondly, do you have any book recommendations? Horror-comedy or otherwise? I'm always told it's a good idea to read your favorite author's favorite books, so what or who do you recommend?
David Wong
The most recent book that absolutely floored me was Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell by Nathan Ballingrud. It has a story called The Butcher's Table about a crew of sailors who journey to Hell as part of an operation to smuggle out condemned souls that has so much rich world-building that it could be spun off into a series of a dozen books. And that's just one story.
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Emily Clauser
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David Wong:
Molly is my favorite character and one of her chapters is also my favorite chapter in any book ever - when she refers to John as "Meatsmell" I was actually crying laughing. So I guess thanks for creating my favorite fictional character :) I always thought it would be cool to have a short story about her - a day in the life kind of thing - would you ever consider doing that?
Erich w/ an h
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David Wong:
A writing technique you use is having a character know information that is, for stronger effect, purposefully never told to the audience. Things like what Hitchcock did to David, what John saw under Largemans mask, how much Big Jim knew about everything, Molly's recipe for spaghetti bolognese, etc. As the author, do you actually know those things (for reference maybe), or do you keep that info secret even to yourself?
Dan
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David Wong:
Having read JDatE, I have to ask: does the dialog come naturally, or do you have to think about "how would this guy talk to that guy?" I find when I write, I can produce some "natural" dialog, but I always seem to question my decisions, then rework or rephrase, and I rarely get a natural, "organic" flow. A lot of my conversations feel contrived. Just looking for some pointers from a success. Please and thank you.
David Wong
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