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Richard Kurti

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In another life, I’d love to have been a clockmaker.
It’s not enough that a clock is a beautiful object, it also has to work – it needs to keep accurate time, month after month.

This is what attracted me to screenwriting, which is where I started as a professional writer. Screenplays have to tell moving, exciting, engaging stories, but they are also incredibly complex and very technical machines that are blueprints for the entire production.

When I ventured into the world of novel writing, I tried to bring some of the lessons I’d learnt in screenwriting with me…

High Concept
I always try to find a big idea to put at the heart of a novel.
It needs to be complex enough to resonate with different characters and situations, but it also needs to be clear enough to immediately take hold of your imagination.

Plot-Character-Plot-Character
To me, they’re very similar things.
Plots only happen because characters are striving for something; at the same time, characters are defined by what they actually do in different circumstances.

Mechanics
This is all about using different techniques to create the most dramatic and gripping story. Often it’s about knowing where to end a scene, or when to reveal information, or the ordering of different events. It’s a bit like playing a massive game of hide and seek with the reader!

I hope that when you read Monkey Wars and Maladpated, you get completely caught up in the worlds and characters.
Did I succeed?
Let me know what you think through Goodreads, or with a Tweet to @Richard_Kurti
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Richard Kurti

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Books from Richard Kurti

The Space Race

Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories

Monkey Wars

Maladapted

The Martian Chronicles: A Full-Cast BBC Radio 4 Drama

Marriage Bureau: The True Story that Revolutionised Dating

Dan Dare Volume 1

The Effect

Krieg der Affen

Dan Dare: The Audio Adventures, Volume One

Episode Two

Episode One

Palette of Blood (Basilica Diaries Medieval Mysteries #2)

Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories