Ask the Author: R.C. Mulhare
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R.C. Mulhare
Hoo, this is a tough question but a great one!
I'd like to see a TV series based off the characters in "The Witch Who Blew In On the Storm", as I have a lot of backstory and world building that didn't make it into the finished story. I'd already done some mental casting while I was writing the story, with Christina Hendricks as Sibyl Fletcher and Jeffrey Combs as Carton Tillinghast. Also, Carton has shown up in a couple other (yet to be published) stories, and he's gradually becoming my answer to Carl Kolchak.
I'd like to see a TV series based off the characters in "The Witch Who Blew In On the Storm", as I have a lot of backstory and world building that didn't make it into the finished story. I'd already done some mental casting while I was writing the story, with Christina Hendricks as Sibyl Fletcher and Jeffrey Combs as Carton Tillinghast. Also, Carton has shown up in a couple other (yet to be published) stories, and he's gradually becoming my answer to Carl Kolchak.
R.C. Mulhare
There's a lot of fictional worlds I'd like to visit, but many of the ones I enjoy reading about make better vacation locations than places to live (H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham or G.R.R. Martin's Westeros, anyone??). A much younger R.C. would have loved to live in Narnia (my mother can attest to the times I've tapped on the back of the wardrobe in what used to be our spare room), while these days I'd love to travel with Le Cirque du Reves of Erin Morgenstern's "The Night Circus". I'd either be one of the fans or possibly a performer (some kind of living sculpture or just an oddball who helps add to the gently gothic atmosphere).
R.C. Mulhare
I can't really think of any mysteries in my personal life, but there's some interesting things that have happened to people on my family tree. For instance, my nine-times great-grandfather Hugh Jones, who lived in Salem before the rise of the Witch Hysteria, died under mysterious circumstances that are lost to history, and who ended up getting cited in the "spectral evidence" (ie. people claiming that a dead person appeared to them in a dream, claiming their death was caused by "evil spells" cast by some socially despised person) of two different trials, namely, that of John Willard and of Elizabeth Proctor. I'm currently working on a poem inspired by these events, but I'd love, someday, to write a whole book about this family and what happened to them.
R.C. Mulhare
With a hammer and a chisel. Sometimes a jackhammer. Or I pull a Jamie Hyneman: "When in doubt? C4. Heh-heh-heh."
No, seriously, I handle it with care: I try first to get to the root of the problem, the reason for the block. Am I tired/stressed? Is something bugging my mind? Are my thoughts too scattered? Is an idea not gelling? These situations call for patience and self-care and often a lot of self-forgiveness. I do try and write every day, but given my chronic medical conditions and my work schedule at the day job, I can't always get as many words down as I would like. If my thoughts are scattered, very often drinking tea and reading a good book will settle my wits. If something is bothering me (usually self doubt or worry that people will find fault with my work), I step away from trying to write and focus on something else; generally, this gets my mind off the worry and I come back to the page with a clearer head - and sometimes the best ideas present myself when I've got my hands in the dishpan or I'm scrubbing the bathtub!
No, seriously, I handle it with care: I try first to get to the root of the problem, the reason for the block. Am I tired/stressed? Is something bugging my mind? Are my thoughts too scattered? Is an idea not gelling? These situations call for patience and self-care and often a lot of self-forgiveness. I do try and write every day, but given my chronic medical conditions and my work schedule at the day job, I can't always get as many words down as I would like. If my thoughts are scattered, very often drinking tea and reading a good book will settle my wits. If something is bothering me (usually self doubt or worry that people will find fault with my work), I step away from trying to write and focus on something else; generally, this gets my mind off the worry and I come back to the page with a clearer head - and sometimes the best ideas present myself when I've got my hands in the dishpan or I'm scrubbing the bathtub!
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