What I let my hero do in the novel has never been done before in the game of football-on screen or in a book-and I think it all worked out very original and how I wanted.Ĥ. I know a lot about the game, and I wrote from a very unique aspect of playing it. My hero gets involved with the game, and I used a lot of my knowledge to write some unique sequences. My own experience has to do with playing football. Where does your own experience intersect with that of the novel's main character? I wanted mainly to "show" rather than "tell," but some of my beta readers wanted more of that telling aspect, and I ended keeping that in mind as I went through it time and time again.ģ. Some of the stuff I thought was so great to begin with I had to cut it out. A lot of times I had to delete what I call "long writing" and try and simplify it for the reader. After about two years I was finished with the story, but from that point I had to go through it multiple times to flesh it out. Using the flashcards helped me to spread them out over the floor (literally) and rearrange them according to dates and times.
Then I made note of the characters' world, whether it was my hero, antagonist, or any other. I then used flashcards to write my chapters, rather, ideas about them. After a year, and maybe 50k words, I started over again, keeping things here and there and trying to write better. So I started to write from where I thought the story should begin. A scene was occurring over and over in my head, and I felt stronger each day about what I was feeling-that there was something good enough to write about. Would you tell us a bit about your process of shaping the book, over the course of 2+ years? Years later, I had the thought of what it would be like if someone was "put upon" like that, meaning: what if there were expectations placed upon a person who wanted to achieve a certain goal that were outside of that goal? What if things got out of hand and the person (hero) had to deal with the ramifications of what others thought about him and what he was doing? I used this as a way to build my story from the inside out.Ģ. Someone came up to me one day and called me "The Ghost." I had never heard that name before and sort of shrugged it off. The inspiration is from my own experience when I was in college, playing football at the University of Arizona. What inspired you to write Story of The Ghost? His story incorporates his experience in football with his love for the hero's journey-stories about extraordinary people who need mentors to help them along the way in overcoming their challenges.ġ. The author has a football background, having played for the University of Arizona. This is his debut novel, one that has been in the works for 2.5 years. Charles Mahoney is the author of the novel, Story of The Ghost, available 1/15/14 on Amazon Kindle.
0 kommentar(er)
