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Jeffrey Ford interview excerpts at Locus Online
Posted by Paul Raven on July 3rd, 2008 at 7:27
For those of us who aren't full subscribers to the print magazine, Locus Magazine likes to chum the waters a little with online teaser snippets of their content. This month's offering includes some excerpts from a much longer interview with Jeffrey Ford, whose quasi-mythological talking-animal novella The Cosmology of the Wider World was published here at PS Publishing back in 2005.
Here's Ford talking about the writing process, revealing that he breaks a lot of the rules and guideline that those teach-yourself-writing manuals will try to instil in you:
“I never take notes, never write outlines, none of that. I like it to mix in my head. I'm working when I'm at the grocery store picking out melons. It's all up there, and I figure if I forget about it, it probably wasn't worth remembering anyway. That's the way I work. I don't think things like journals are bad; I just don't use 'em. Some people have special little notebooks and pens -- whatever works for you.”
Sounds like a much more liberated way to work, doesn't it? Personally I find I need rigid discipline to get anything done... maybe that's what separates the pros from the rank amateurs, eh?
We still have a few copies of The Cosmology of the Wider World ferreted away (arf!) in the PS Publishing warehouse, by the way - click on through to pick one up:
- The Cosmology of the Wider World (jacketed hardcover) - £25 (US$50 approx)
- The Cosmology of the Wider World (paperback) - £10 (US$20 approx)
