I read voraciously and rapidly, consuming a novel in two hours while retaining key points of style, impact and interest from each. My principal concern is about the energy that I receive from the text, not enough and it is discarded!
Thus, I strive for my writing must invigorate and excite, arouse and challenge; I follow the discipline of Ordinary World and Special World so ably expressed by Chris Vogler and Joseph Campbell for it is my belief that most stories have already been told and our task is to bring them up to date. My current novel is an unashamed and admiring tribute to the Robin Hood legend just as seen in Kurosawa’s brilliant Seven Samurai and copied by John Sturgess in the outrageously anti-genre Magnificent Seven.
I asked how contemporary Sherwood warriors, Samurai and gunslingers would fit into this ageless mold. What if they were fighter pilots? What if the village they were to protect was a tiny country? That is how and why my current novel was conceived and written.