A metaview with Claire King is to appear on the fabulous fiction magazine Metazen in July.
A metaview, strictly, means I interview myself. However I’d love you to tell me what I could ask myself that might be interesting to you, the reader.
So, what do you want to know?
If you were a book, what book would you be and why?
What is your favourite book/who is your favourite author?
Does any of your own personality translate into your characters?
How do you discipline yourself to write?
2 questions
1. Who are your literary heros and why?
2. What is it your view about writing which distinguishes it from (and perhaps elevates it above?) other forms of artistic expression?
You’re… er… 32 years old now. What can you say that you know for certain?
Who would attend your fantasy dinner-party?
Where the ARSEBISCUITS are my car keys?
Do you start off with an idea to which you immediately know the beginning, middle and end, or do you go wherever it takes you?
Do you always keep below a certain number of words and is this decided before you begin your story?
How long does it take you on average to think up and complete a piece of flash fiction that you are happy with and do you write more than you need to and then cut it back?
Who are you reading?
What do you like to do when not reading or writing?
How do you choose the names for your characters?
What do you think makes good writing?
Why do husbands always think the wife knows where THEY left the car keys?
Marisa you crack me up 🙂
What do you find difficult in your own writing?
When did you first think of yourself as a writer?
What is your first writing-related memory?
What are you working on right now? 🙂 x
1. What’s your favourite ever passage? (And whose was it?)
2.Should arsebiscuits be hyphenated?
When are you up?