Specific Questions About the Book for Dave
If you have a specific question about the book, a character, a line, a scene, its publishing, etc....post it here. I'll check back often and answer them.
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Quote:If you can remember, what was your main motivation for writing Ezekiel's Shadow? What did you hope your readers would take away from the story?Those are two slightly different questions.1. The...
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Quote:1.) How did you come up this voice? 2.) Since Ian paid for the rabbit and the fox did not eat it... Was hare on the menu?1. The thing with the "voice" (related in particular to dialogue) comes...
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Quote:I had watched the mini-series of Stephen King's The Stand on TV. Now King's dabbled in spiritual themes now and then, but having never read the stand I was surprised at how overt they were AND...
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Well, and King's The Green Mile is in many ways a Christian allegory too. I think it might be interesting to open a separate thread in this discussion to discuss the ideas brought up by the book: Can...
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Dave: What consideration did you give alternate p.o.v.s for the story? For instance, Ian telling the story first-person rather than third-? Or sections told from Rebecca's or Hanover's or other...
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Chris, you thought Rebecca's conversion was all of a sudden? It didn't feel like that to me. I thought it was gradual--a lot shown through her changed attitude toward Ian which was really a response...
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I believe a quote from Fletch is in order:Quote:Dr. Joseph Dolan: You know, it's a shame about Ed.Fletch: Oh, it was. Yeah, it was really a shame. To go so suddenly like that.Dr. Joseph Dolan: He was...
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In an earlier thread, we discussed whether a reader can see into the soul of the writer.( Do you find thread )After rereading your book, how much of your "soul" do you see portrayed there?From an...
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Quote:What consideration did you give alternate p.o.v.s for the story? For instance, Ian telling the story first-person rather than third-? Or sections told from Rebecca's or Hanover's or other...
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Quote:After rereading your book, how much of your "soul" do you see portrayed there?It's obviously from me, but I'd be wary of trying to read too deeply into my psyche from it. I'm not an...
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Ok, first thing's first:Quote:1. The thing with the "voice" (related in particular to dialogue) comes from my long-standing bias against tons of dialogue. See Michelle waving to the pages of dialogue...
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Dave, I am having a hard time believing that Howard doesnt have a book of his own. Have you any plans? I bet it would be a lot of fun!CurmThe Curmudgeon's Rant
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It's always a bad idea to write a sequel to a book that didn't sell well in the first place. Not to be purely capitalistic but the work involved in putting together a novel about these characters...
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Quote:The evil world of editing and marketing has corrupted my pure artistic spirit.Welcome to the Dark Side, Dave. We don't get to think as much about artsy-fartsy things such as "theme" and "voice"...
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Maybe somebody has already posted this and I missed it...but I'm curious if ES was the inspiration for Rene Gutteridge's "Boo" (inspirational comedy/romance) that starts off the exact same way- the...
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Strange but at the time Rene was writing for us. Ghostwriter and Troubled Waters are BHP books. She submitted "Boo" as an idea as we were in the midst of preparing ES and so we turned it down and went...
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Now that you've had the opportunity to revisit your ancient manuscript <g>, from a "craft" persepective, what are the top three things you wish you could go back and change? And what are the top...
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Three things I'd work on:1. I'd back off on some of the thematic/symbolic elements. 2. Sustain the suspense thread more fully, and offer a more statisfying conclusion to it. 3. Fix the dangling...
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