Ask the Author: Matthew Ledrew
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Matthew Ledrew
Read good fiction: preferably by someone I've never read before. Nothing better than new ideas to breed new ideas. Also, I read non-fiction, like ethnographies, for inspiration.
Matthew Ledrew
Henry and Clare from "The Time Traveler's Wife." Rarely have I felt more invested in the bond of a fictional couple.
Matthew Ledrew
A spy novel dealing primarily with corporate espionage. Also the third Xander Drew book.
Matthew Ledrew
I look at the long list of ideas I have yet to get to and remind myself that someday, I'll be dead. Nobody will write those stories the way I envision them except me, and they deserve to be told, so I better get to work.
Matthew Ledrew
"Yes And" everything.
Just like in improv: there are no bad ideas, but no idea is "complete." Ant idea you get, get excited by it and add to it.
Idea: Cats in Space
Yes! And?
They form a big unified federation
Yes! And?
And so on.
Just like in improv: there are no bad ideas, but no idea is "complete." Ant idea you get, get excited by it and add to it.
Idea: Cats in Space
Yes! And?
They form a big unified federation
Yes! And?
And so on.
Matthew Ledrew
Always having a new book to enjoy. Writers are people who craved a story they couldn't find.
Matthew Ledrew
I was sitting in an automotive dealership awaiting a tire rotation and the television in the waiting room was stuck on a religious channel with some sort of 'healing through faith' program on. So many of those are examples of charlatanism, but the idea of what a legitimate one might look like and the toll that might take on a body and soul came to me and intrigued me, and became a major crux of "Exodus of Angels"
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