My good friend Trent Jamieson has been interviewed over at The Australian Literature Review.
He talks about how he writes:
‘Well, I’m not much of a planner, so first drafts are generally me trying things out and trying to make sense of stuff. Most of this book was written at the Toowong Library (in the local history section) in longhand. I’d walk down there every weekday, that I wasn’t working, listening to the same music to get me in the right frame of mind (mainly, for the first book Okkervil River, Gotye, and Spoon) and write until I’d filled about eight pages or so of my notebook. Then I’d go home and type them into my computer.’
Having read Trent’s book in its final form before it went off to the publisher (and loving it then) I’m really looking forward to getting a copy of it when it released.
And over at the Galaxy blog, Trent has done a guest post on his new series and writing in general.
For more on Trent and his weird and wondferful world view, drop by his blog.
Thanks, Rowena.
I do live in a bit of a weird world at the moment, a weird world with deadlines – though deadlines for books about Death seems kind of appropriate.
You said …. weird world with deadlines – though deadlines for books about Death seems kind of appropriate
LOL, Trent.