Welcome to Part Two
of Confessions of a Reviewers interview with Kit Power.
In tonight’s section, Kit starts by answering some specific
questions on his new book GodBomb!,
continues to talk about his writing and life in general and tackles The Ten
Confessions.
It’s Wednesday so grab yourself something tasty snacks and a
beer or two to cheer yourself up, sit back and relax, but, most of all………enjoy!
COAR - Moving on to GodBomb! Where did this
one come from? What did you want your readers to get out of it?
KP - I had the idea for this when I was nineteen. I even wrote
the first chapter, but back then I almost never went back to anything that took
longer than a single session to write, so it never went anywhere. Still, it
lodged deep down, burrowing away…
Cut to a couple of years ago. I'd written a couple of
novella length tales, including Lifeline
and The Loving Husband, and a bunch
of short stories, and it started to pall for me a bit. After thinking about it
for a little while, I realised it was because I was consciously writing “to
length”, even coming up with ideas that I knew would fit two to four thousand
words, and it felt a bit constraining. I remembered how much fun Lifeline had been because I just had no
idea how long it would be or what was going to happen, and I thought “okay,
time to jump off a cliff again”.
I mean, my plan had been to write short stories for two
or three years, try and rack up four or five pro market sales to prove I could
actually write at a professional standard, THEN
start a novel. But the muse had other ideas, and the muse is the boss.
As to what I want my readers to get out of it, the same
thing I always want: to feel entertained for the length of time it takes them
to read the story. Honestly, that's my job, I think, as a writer – to captivate
you for the length of the book – to make you FEEL. If I also make you think, that's fine, but if I don't, that's
fine too.
