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Episode 41 with Nin Harris – author, poet & Gothic scholar
“I really love to dig into the guts of a novel to see how it works.”
Episode 41 – Nin Harris – Show Notes
- Inspired to write short stories by Angela Carter
- Both a plotter and a pantser
- Water or rooibos tea
- SFF and gothic but writing about the human experience
- Identity, memory and difficult connections between people
- Gothic in space
- Reading carefully – go outside your fishbowl
- Throwing books across the room – like a book poltergeist
- Beat sheets: major beats and minor beats; cause and effect
- Frances Hardinge, Graham Joyce
- Different writing depending on mood. Academic v fiction writing
“The first draft does have a bit of vomit in it.”
“For me, space is very gothic.”
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