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#73 – Kristy Childs – Write Through The Roof podcast
Interview with debut steampunk author, Kristy Childs
“How to make Sleeping Beauty an active protagonist.”
Episode 73 – Kristy Childs – Show Notes- Writes seasonally – starts in November with Nanowrimo until April
- Light plot outline but generally pantsing
- Fuelled by green tea
- Themes are usually concepts to be included in the work – e.g. airship heist
- Start with character or concept first?
- Steampunk or gas lamp – genre definition
- Editing
- Changing British English into American English and difference in grammar rules
- Passive voice cut-out and strengthening word use
- Microsoft Word extra grammar features
- “I before e except after c” – exceptions
- Favourite genres to read – urban fantasy and YA – N.K. Jemisin, Tamora Pierce, Ben Aaronovitch, Warlock Holmes
- The Nightmare Detective inspired by The Maltese Falcon but set between the Wars and Sleeping Beauty retelling.
- Sleep disorders
- Current project is a Chinese fantasy for Nanowrimo. Inspired by ‘cultivation novels’ – Dragonball Z
“I want dinosaurs and I want explosions”
Links- Kristy on Amazon
- Kristy on Twitter
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