Mars Girl
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Scott Sigler:
I'm really looking forward to your new novel, Scott! My question is, what made you choose to go with young adult fiction this time around? I admit that it's going to be interesting to see you go that direction after your very adult audience books. Was it a challenge to write in this genre?
Scott Sigler
I didn't set out to write a YA story. The nature of the characters and their background made it ideal for that tag, though, and the publisher is only too happy to pitch it as such.
It wasn't difficult to write because of character youth, what killed me was writing with no cultural references of any kind. I don't think we realize how much of our daily conversation consists of colloquialisms, pop-culture references, historical references, etc. For example, I couldn't say "she knocked that out of the park" because they don't remember baseball (or parks, for that matter). "She lit him up," or "she knocked him cold," same thing. Those phrases have meaning in our culture, but our characters are devoid of any background whatso ever.
The hardest thing was to use simple language that stands on its own, without relying on references of any kind.
It wasn't difficult to write because of character youth, what killed me was writing with no cultural references of any kind. I don't think we realize how much of our daily conversation consists of colloquialisms, pop-culture references, historical references, etc. For example, I couldn't say "she knocked that out of the park" because they don't remember baseball (or parks, for that matter). "She lit him up," or "she knocked him cold," same thing. Those phrases have meaning in our culture, but our characters are devoid of any background whatso ever.
The hardest thing was to use simple language that stands on its own, without relying on references of any kind.
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Scott Sigler:
Huge fan, Mr. Sigler. But something as been bothering me since "Infected:" Perry Dawson was going to go #1 overall before his injury? An Off-The-Ball Linebacker? It hasn't happened since...Aundray Bruce, I think...and that was still in an era where a run-stopping linebacker had value. Frankly, I think you're just looking at him through Maize-Colored glasses.
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Scott Sigler:
I guess it’s too late now to call in for the Nocturnal Q&A, but I don’t think you ever went into details about this and I’m curious: You mentioned plot holes in the podcasted first draft. I don’t recall any off the top of my head, so if it’s not too traumatic, could you give examples of plot holes?
Gavin
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Scott Sigler:
Hi Scott. Any views on when the Crypt #2 would come out? I loved the audio book
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