Daniel Lewis
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Shawn Inmon:
In Aiden Anderson you bring up the ability to use future hits. This is at least the 2nd time you have mentioned that. Does that mean in one of your lives you became a huge rock-star using future hits but then felt guilty? Maybe one of the songs you got the release date wrong and the real writer also released it but came out like a week after yours so they thought he was the one plagiarizing?
Shawn Inmon
Unfortunately, all my musical talent resides in my golden ears. I can't play an instrument or sing at all. =)
You are picking up on something that is really part of my writing process. Sometimes I will come up with a question, in this case "what would the ethics be of using foreknowledge to create something that was already created?"
Sometimes that question will occur to me in the midst of a book where it can't really be fully answered. So I tuck it away in my mental file cabinet to be answered in full in a later book.
So it was with Aiden and the idea of "borrowing" a popular song. That question provided the entire framework of the movie "Yesterday," but I wanted to use it to show how Aiden's mind - and character - worked.
Cheers!
You are picking up on something that is really part of my writing process. Sometimes I will come up with a question, in this case "what would the ethics be of using foreknowledge to create something that was already created?"
Sometimes that question will occur to me in the midst of a book where it can't really be fully answered. So I tuck it away in my mental file cabinet to be answered in full in a later book.
So it was with Aiden and the idea of "borrowing" a popular song. That question provided the entire framework of the movie "Yesterday," but I wanted to use it to show how Aiden's mind - and character - worked.
Cheers!
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Daniel Lewis
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Shawn Inmon:
That’s great, I am thrilled because I enjoy both the Middle Falls and the Alex Hawk series. I thought you had said at one point that you were not going to write any more middle falls, it was probably just taking a break but I did not look for a while and boom there are three of them! Here is to more and more people find your books they are very entertaining. This is not a question just a thanks but its making me add?
Jonás Molina
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Shawn Inmon:
I am reading the whole Middle Fall series. I just finished book #7 and about to start #8. I find those stories amazing: while talking about time travel, they focus so much on the human side of the characters, they are really touching. One thing troubles me, though: are you ever afraid that someone reading your Middle Fall books might be tempted to commit suicide to "reset" their life?
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