So they sent someone to ask me questions. I was gonna lie to her, but her questions were more interesting than I thought they would be. She wondered why I was taking notes, though.
What’s your favourite under-appreciated novel?
The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut
No, Mark Vonnegut, his son.
Let’s just say that I could identify with it.
Have you read it?
If you didn’t write, what would you do for work?
I’d like to think I coulda been a pretty good bartender, but I never wanted to work that hard.
If not that, then I’d like to own a hot dog cart.
Near a beach, on a boardwalk, not in a city
Have you ever eaten a hodog with brown mustard and julienned jalapeños?
Do you hide any secrets in your books that only a few people will find?
I try but I’m seldom successful.
My readers, in most cases, have more life experience than I do.
It means that they see right through my feeble attempts at embedding secrets in my work.
Only once and I’m not going to tell you any more than that.
Do you Google yourself?
Absolutely
Nothing that I didn’t already know
Mostly boring shit. My story isn’t that exciting.
I wanted to know the ending
If you had to do something differently as a child or teenager to become a better writer as an adult, what would you do?
I would want to have my parents read to me more.
As a teenager, the question is not so easy.
I guess, I would like to think that writing more at that stage in my life would have made me a better writer, but then I would not have had the opportunity to observe teenagers in the wild; in their natural habitat.
This would have hampered my ability to recognize their reality and know their reactions in any given situation. I might have become even less successful than I am currently and, that would be really bad.
You know, “A legend in my own mind …”
No
This week’s prompt:
Interview someone! Real or imagined. Come up with five questions and three follow-up questions to your interviewee’s answers. The Interviewer can be in first person, or a third person character.
I chose to present the interviewers initial question only, and then present my answer to that as well as her follow up questions below. You can undoubtedly ascertain the follow-ups on your own.
I read Mark Vonnegut’s book a long time ago. His father refers to it often in his autobiographical book of essays that I just read, Fates Worse Than Death.
What a fun post.
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Thank you. It was fun to write. I know that you are busy but, if you want you can check out LRose’s Blog Propellant. Just follow the link.
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I will try to find time for this, thanks!
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Contact me if you are interested in being a featured guest or even having a character of yours be a featured guest. I might also like to have a guest prompter take the stage once a month or so.
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A favorite author of one of my siblings. Didn’t know his son published anything, so nice to know. Love how the interviewee posed the follow up questions! Thanks for playing the game. I’ve been thinking on my response and haven’t settled on who the characters will be. Happy New Year!
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Hey, friend – thanks for promotin’ ol’ TBP to D. Avery! I ain’t seen so many hits on my blog in some time. Her interview with her character is delightful. 🙂
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She writes fun reads!
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I am not as well read as perhaps I should be. But I still enjoyed your questions and answers!!
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Thanks
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an entertaining interview; most writers I know Google themselves, myself included ; I just noted that note at the top from ‘my English Professor’ ROFL 🙂
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