Interview Lucius Shepard

[marie.m]

Lucius Shepard est en interview sur le site de Nightmare magazine, à propos de sa nouvelle "The Ease with Which We Freed the Beast" (qui peut être lue en ligne).

What is your typical writing process like, and how did this story in particular come about?

Get up. Drink coffee, go to work. Work as long as I feel it. Stories just come to me, sometimes over a period of years, sometimes over a few days. I’m not into self-analysis, so I don’t explore their origins, but in this case it was obvious. I was an abused child, and a very angry teenager and young man. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten over being angry—so in this case I was more or less blending some autobiographical stuff with fantasy. When I was a kid, I believed anger was magic of a kind, power, and I wanted to convey that feeling in the main character. I got angry when I was writing it.