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     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I'm not really sure, but they have: http://darkwolfsfantasyreviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/interview-gary-mcmahon.html | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.106 |
Nice interview and great pictures. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
Best of luck with finding a mass market publisher for the books- fingers crossed (those not amputated). | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
Good interview, Gary and as Karim says, good luck with the mm publisher! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Thanks, chaps. I'm buzzing right now becasue I've just completed the first draft of "Pretty Little Dead Things", my novel featuring Thomas Usher. Now I just have to whip it into some kind of shape...  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.168.165.44 |
Nice one, Zed. Hope the book's (and books) looking good. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Cheers, Mark. I go a little bit insane when I'm writing novels, so it's just nice to have my sanity back. :-) I'm pretty happy with the first draft of the new one, but it's probably the darkest thing I've written. I may have gone...too far with a couple of scenes. :-/ | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.168.165.44 |
I'm still on my rewrite but have broken off to write a couple of shorts. Makes me think of the Mansfield quote: "Looking back I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better by far to write twaddle or anything, than nothing at all." | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I'm giving myself a month for re-writes, and then it's off to the publisher. Twaddle? I have no time for twaddle; this is a serious business. My twaddling days are well behind me.  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.168.165.44 |
"With short stories you don't have to worry about failing." Haruki Murakami | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.168.165.44 |
Ha. A month?! Fook me. I spent a month rewriting a chapter and then realised the chapter would be better deleted anyway . . . I'd written it for me and the reader didn't need it, I realised. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
It's like Mrs Miggins' pie shop round here. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Mark, I don't have the time to take that long. I wish I did, but it just isn't possible. I have to be incredibly disciplined. I have at my disposal a maximum of 3 hours a night in which to write, so I have to make each minute count. I spent a month rewriting a chapter and then realised the chapter would be better deleted anyway . . . I'd written it for me and the reader didn't need it, I realised. If I wasted time like that I'd be furious with myself. The mental state I'm in when I write a novel, I'd probably punch myself in the face.  | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.42.193 |
It will take me longer than that to get my novel in Zed. Do you have an idea of how long your novel is going to be? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
About seven inches. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.42.193 |
Ah - seven man inches. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.168.165.44 |
In your dreams . . .  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.168.165.44 |
>>If I wasted time like that I'd be furious with myself. The mental state I'm in when I write a novel, I'd probably punch myself in the face. I wasn't too thrilled with myself, either, fella, believe me. But it's strangely invigorating doing all that cutting. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I work the other way round: I'm an adder rather than a subtractor. First draft: 87,000 words. Second draft: 90,000 words. Etc, etc. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
My first draft of "Rough Cut" was only 20,000 words, but the final ms came in at 35,000. I was talking with Simon S about this topic the other day. I came to the conclusion that I work in clay, adding layers as I go, and he works in stone, chipping layers away to reveal the story beneath. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.168.165.44 |
I work in marshy ground. Sink underneath, can't breathe, flail about, then crawl out covered in shit... | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.168.165.44 |
Trollope apparently wrote to the stopwatch. 250 words per fifteen minutes . . . | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
Then be happy you don't work in film- you deliver a screenplay- fourteen weeks go by, then they tell you that they're looking at it- another 14 weeks go by- they say 'interesting'- 14 weeks go by and then they say 'kinda interesting, I'm going to show it to someone' -another 14 weeks go by- they come back and say 'can you write this and this differently'- you work very hard for a couple of weeks- there is no night there is no day; you deliver on deadline- 14 weeks go by- repeat the process again. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.203.110 |
Have you heard of the Microwave project? Mum and Dad got written and made in months. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Is the Dad in Mum and dad the fat older guy in Combo's gang in This is England? | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Yes, Perry Benson. Also in Meadow's film Somers Town and some rather dodgy gangster dramas. He's a decent enough actor though. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
He was also in Operation Goodguys - which was absolutely bloody brilliant. | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
Operation Goodguys! Thanks, Gary, I couldn't remember the name of that for the life of me. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Hilarious programme... |