Ask the Author: Rachael Wright
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Rachael Wright
The news. Savva is struggling in the aftermath of a terrorist attack and it's brutal. I want to portray real-life and PTSD and angst when investigations don't turn up the evidence you need. I also wanted to show the depth of care and love that humanity has stored up within it. I'm terribly sorry for what I've put Savva through, he's dealt with a lot. But then ... so have we all. In our own way.
Rachael Wright
People, experiences, and trauma. I'm of the persuasion that if you can't find at least one interesting thing in a person, the fault lies with you-not them. Every life is varied and complex and full of sorrow and joy. The idea that we pass by all these stories as we walk down the street intrigues me. For example, in Denver there's a bespoke men's clothing shop across from the Brown Palace Hotel. It really belongs in England, on a bustling high street, with country squires coming in for a fitting. I wonder how the owner got there and why his brand exists the way it does. I shall have to ask him one day.
Rachael Wright
Multiple books. I wish I had a time-turner and could work on all three books every day. I'm finishing up Captain Savva's 4th book, I'm researching for a book on Scotland in the 9th-10th century, and I'm writing a book for my daughter about Snowy Owls.
Rachael Wright
Read as much and as widely as you can. It's almost as if by osmosis that good sentences and thrilling stories seep into your writing being. My grandmother read the Bible to me all the time as a child and a lot of my ideas about poetry and sentence structure come from that, and C.S. Lewis. Reading before writing makes you thirsty to write your own.
Rachael Wright
I have lived a thousands lives and been a thousand places. My father always told me to get my head out of the clouds and back into reality. I've thankfully been able to ignore that particular order and live life as me.
Rachael Wright
It doesn't exist. It's a fallacy. I'm a writer and it's my job. Sometimes certain scenes/chapters/books/blurbs need to be left to ferment (or prove in baking terms). I let them rest and come back but I'm always working on something.
Rachael Wright
Death by a thousand cuts. Life with my mother.
Rachael Wright
Narnia. I've been fascinated with it since I was a child growing up on a ranch. All I wanted was for our animals to be able to talk to me. I'd love to experience life through their eyes. Plus I'm less likely to be killed there than in the Wizarding World or Middle Earth.
Rachael Wright
I have a lot of books on the early history of Scotland that are waiting for me. I'm in the process of researching for a book I'm hoping to write in 2021.
The Makers of Scotland by Tim Clarkson
A People's History of Scotland by Chris Bambery
A Brief History of the Druids by Peter Beresford Ellis
The Viking Age: Caithness, Orkney, and the North Atlantic by CE Bailey
Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances by John Hunter
The Makers of Scotland by Tim Clarkson
A People's History of Scotland by Chris Bambery
A Brief History of the Druids by Peter Beresford Ellis
The Viking Age: Caithness, Orkney, and the North Atlantic by CE Bailey
Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances by John Hunter
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