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Fiddler In The Night is the fourth
in a never-ending series called INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION where
the Chris Rice Cooper Blog (CRC) focuses on one specific excerpt from a
fiction genre and how that fiction writer wrote that specific excerpt. All INSIDE THE EMOTION OF FICTION links
are at the end of this piece.
Name of fiction work?
And were there other names you considered that you would like to share with
us? I have just recently, this past week finished
a novel The Fiddler in the Night.
For the longest time
the working title of the novel was Urram Hill. Urram being a Gaelic word
meaning dignity. It’s the name of the
farm where the main character is from. (Right: On the Pain Beyond The Trees attributed and copyright permission granted by Christian Fennell for this CRC Blog Post Only)
Fiction genre? Ex science fiction, short story, fantasy
novella, romance, drama, crime, plays, flash fiction, historical, comedy, etc.
And how many pages long? Literary Fiction, but not by choice, it just comes out that way. Although, I’m not a big subscriber to the
genre definitions.
Has this been published?
And it is totally fine if the answer is no. If yes, what
publisher and what publication date?
The book has not been published, as I have only just finished. Let’s hope. (Winter Writing attributed and copyright permission granted by Christian Fennell for this CRC Blog Post Only)
What is the date you
began writing this piece of fiction and the date when you completely finished
the piece of fiction? Six years, but, also working on my second novel,
which I’m half done, entitled The Monkey
King. So I'm a little neurotic that way, I like the variety of changing it up. I'd work on the novel for two or three moths, then leave it and write a short story or two or three, then go back to the novel. In that time, I was also contributing a monthly column to the Prague Review, which was nice to be able to leave fiction and write some nonfiction.
Where did you do most of
your writing for this fiction work? And
please describe in detail. And can you
please include a photo? I had been a writer of screenplays in my early days of working in film and
television, and having had to pack that world in, I needed something I could do
on my own, and writing fiction was it.
It was like coming back full circle.
I moved us to our cabin in rural Ontario and I went at it – the novel
and writing short stories. We were there
for a year. The fact that it is now five
years beyond that is somewhat astonishing to me, in a wtf kinda way. (Right: Christian writing at his desk. Copyright permission granted by Christian Fennell for this CRC Blog Post Only)
What were your writing
habits while writing this work- did you drink something as you wrote, listen to
music, write in pen and paper, directly on laptop; specific time of day? I like to write in the mornings. For the longest time, 4-7 a.m., which was the
only tie I had for writing. With
fiction, I like to let my fingers do the thinking, and so I type. With nonfiction, I start with a pad and pen,
as much of nonfiction is research and thinking, both of which I try and avoid
when writing fiction. (Left: Christian Fennell in August of 2018. Copyright permission granted by Christian Fennell for this CRC Blog Post Only)
What is the summary of
your fiction work The Fiddler in the
Night? Cody McLean’s mother disappears the night of her
husband’s wake. The orphaned teen sets
out to pursue a suspicious stranger. On
the road he meets a variety of people, all with advice for the young boy, all a
potential thread. He continues to track
the stranger and soon there is a trail of dead bodies. He meets Holly Morningstar, a girl his own
age, held captive, prostituted and beaten by her guardian. Cody frees Holly and she joins him on his
hunt for the stranger. They fall in
love and soon they are the ones being hunted.
In the name love, does Cody abandon is pursuit of the stranger, the
man he is convinced murdered his mother, or does he keep going, to satisfy
revenge.
Please include excerpt
and include page numbers as reference.
The excerpt can be as short or as long as you prefer. On either side of the road appeared large outcroppings of shield rock
streaked with black and pink and where alder bushes, raspberry bushes and trees
grew from crevices. He saw ancient trees
grown too tall and heavy for their rocky moorings, having fallen onto their
sides, great circular walls of exposed roots and dirt pointing to the sky. He rode past dark and vacant lakes and he
rode past narrow long stretches of washed-out lowlands, sun-bleached trees
still standing, dead and broken.
Why is this excerpt so
emotional for you? And can you describe
your own emotional experience of writing this specific excerpt? It’s simple descriptive passage (where) the setting gives birth to the
characters, and through them, the story itself.
It is my hope, that the setting can, in some ways, highlight, or
accentuate, the theme of the story.
Other works you have
published? I have published multiple short stories and essays
in various literary journals. They have
appeared in a number of literary magazines and collected works, including: Wilderness House Literary Review, Spark: A Creative Anthology, Carnival Magazine,
Tincture, Liars’ League London, Liquid Imagination, and Kingston University of
London: Words, Pauses, Noises, among others.
My short story “Under the Midnight Sun” was an Eric Hoffer Award, 2015
Best new Writing finalist. (Right Eric Hoffer)
Anything you would like
to add? Writing is faith and way down in the dark hole of
that, the light of trust and hope. Find
those things.
Contact link for you? If the weather is nice, hopefully, I’m out on the water fishing. Try me
there. (Left: Christian Fennell Blog Logo Page Photo)
INSIDE THE EMOTION OF
FICTION links
001 11 15 2018 Nathaniel Kaine’s
Thriller Novel
John
Hunter – The Veteran
002 11 18 2018 Ed Protzzel’s
Futuristic/Mystery/Thriller
The
Antiquities Dealer
003 11 23 2018 Janice Seagraves’s
Science
Fiction Romance
Exodus
Arcon
004 11 29 2018 Christian Fennell’s
Literary Fiction
Novel
The Fiddler in the Night
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/004-inside-emotion-of-fiction-christian.html
For the longest time
the working title of the novel was Urram Hill. Urram being a Gaelic word
meaning dignity. It’s the name of the
farm where the main character is from. (Right: On the Pain Beyond The Trees attributed and copyright permission granted by Christian Fennell for this CRC Blog Post Only) 
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