More Interview! More Dimmest Secrets!
Here is part two of the interview with raygun revival:
http://www.raygunrevival.com/sffwrtcht-interview-author-john-c-wright-part-two/
An excerpt:
SFFWRTCHT: How do you deal with writer’s block?
JCW: By not believing that there is such a thing. Writer’s block is the muse trying to tell you that you have made a mistake and are lying down railroad track going the wrong way. The only thing to do is swallow your ego and rip up the track, go back to wherever the wrong turn was, and start again. If you cannot do that, then you will suffer writer’s block.
SFFWRTCHT: What future projects are you working on that we can look forward to?
JCW: […] The paratime fantasy mentioned (tentatively titled SOMEWHITHER) above was born when I wanted to write something set in a Dan Brown-style background, or, rather, the opposite background, with clerical assassins from archaic and hidden orders of the Church as the good guys, and the Harvard trained symbologist as the mad scientist with a beautiful daughter.
I also wanted monkey-masked ninja-girl, a Haunted Museum, a voluptuous sea-witch, a talking falcon, the Holy Grail, primordial Ur-Language of Man, the Ring of the Nibelungs, monsters from the antipodes, sardonic Latin werewolves, haughty Hellenic blood-quaffers, high-energy physicists, evil astrologers from a parallel world where astrology actually works, nihilistic Babylonians, the Tree of Life, the Simurgh of Persia, a magic katana, an unkillable hero, the Deep of Uncreation, and a prayer-powered mecha made from the abandoned celestial armor of a forty-four story high archangel hidden in the depth of the Great River Euphrates.
So SOMEWHITHER is basically a gentle and meditative love story about the ineffable beauty of … oh, no, wait. It is an action-adventure story about a goofy teen with buck teeth and a puppy love crush on his busty girl boss who gets tossed down a rabbit hole into another dimension and finds himself in a fight scene about once every two or three chapters, with gratuitous blood gushing every which way. He has got to solve the mystery, save more worlds than one, and rescue the girl, and she cannot remember his name. It is one of those kind of stories. Grim and serious it is not.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
