Tom Higgins
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Jennifer Sun:
Two Tales of the Moon: I was lucky to have won a copy of your book on Goodreads, and just received it yesterday. My question: Did living in China previously help to formulate your plots and processes, or was that not relevant? Reason I ask is that I travel often, and find that my best ideas are seemingly based on where and with whom I'm with at the time. Just curious.....Thank You
Jennifer Sun
Hi Tom,
Having lived half of my life in China definitely helped to formulate part of the themes of Two Tales of the Moon, but my life here in U.S. so far made the themes whole. I think my life experiences in both China and U.S. are definitely relevant in terms of what main messages I wanted to send through the book. But when it comes to developing plots and characters, I do agree with you that visiting places that you use as settings in the book, or meeting locals of those places can provide you with good ideas or even inspirations sometimes. I visited Shanghai, NYC, Montauk Beach many times while I was writing Two Tales of the Moon. What I considered the best scenes and dialogues in the book came from those visits.
Thank you for your interest in my book, I hope you'll enjoy the reading.
All my best,
Jennifer
Having lived half of my life in China definitely helped to formulate part of the themes of Two Tales of the Moon, but my life here in U.S. so far made the themes whole. I think my life experiences in both China and U.S. are definitely relevant in terms of what main messages I wanted to send through the book. But when it comes to developing plots and characters, I do agree with you that visiting places that you use as settings in the book, or meeting locals of those places can provide you with good ideas or even inspirations sometimes. I visited Shanghai, NYC, Montauk Beach many times while I was writing Two Tales of the Moon. What I considered the best scenes and dialogues in the book came from those visits.
Thank you for your interest in my book, I hope you'll enjoy the reading.
All my best,
Jennifer
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