. WRITE! Find the Truth in Your Fiction
1. What inspired you to write your book? One of my sons suggested
it, and I looked back on all my years of professional creative writing and
began to feel that I should communicate what I know, and that my method of
emotion realism might help a lot of fiction writers.
2. What is it about? It’s about the art of storytelling, about
capturing a reader or a film audience and taking them on a journey of our
imagination, an emotional and satisfying journey that FEELS true and offers
both entertainment and enrichment.
3. What do you hope will be the everlasting thoughts for readers
who finish your book? I hope they’ll be thinking: I feel now that I know how to
write a story (screenplay, novel, stage play) that contains that precious human
truth which keeps readers caring and believing right up to the end.
4. What advice do you have for writers? Write your very best work,
and get it out into the world any way you can, and while you’re waiting for the
world to respond - start your next one. Persistence and belief in
yourself are mandatory.
5. Where do you think the book publishing industry is heading? Like
film-making, book publishing is coming closer and closer to the hands of the
artist. The old school publishers and the film studios have distribution,
but the artists have the Internet. Let’s see what happens.
6. What challenges did you have in writing your book? It’s not
easy to step back and study and articulate your way of working - which has
become instinctive after 45 years. I had to take my writing method apart and
study the pieces.
7. If people can only buy one book this month, why should it be
yours? Because everyone knows someone who wants to be a writer or IS a writer
and needs guidance, and this book is personal, conversational, a how-to that I
wish I could have read when I was beginning.
About Gerald DiPego: He is author of 33 produced screenplays, 5
published novels, 2 produced plays, 2 published short stories, 1 published
greeting card and a drawer full of poetry. www.geralddipego.com
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