Interview with:J. D. LeCoq [jdlecoq]
WRITING
 | What did you first read? How did you begin to write? Who were the first to read what you wrote? I used to love to go to the library. History books were my favorites, but humor caught my fancy also. I began to write on notes on 3X5 notecards to put into my regular journal at first. I learned that, if I remember correctly, from Jim Bouton and his book, Ball Four. I was 15 at the time. My first works were read by my family and of course at school in English class. |
| What is your favorite genre? Can you provide a link to a site where we can read some of your work or learn something about it? http://hubpages.com/profile/cajunrooster
http://unenlightened-thinker.blogspot.com/
http://roostersorganicgardeningblog.blogspot.com/
I will write about anything at some point or another. That includes: fiction, non-fiction, humor, politics, history, you name it. I might write about it. So I am all over the spectrum. |
| What is your creative process like? What happens before sitting down to write? I don't know if I have a creative process per se. I always carry a small red Moleskine notebook with me. I jot down notes and things I want to remember to expand on later. I use mind-mapping at times to help me out. I will occasionally outline something I write. But most of the time I just jump right into my idea or thought and just write. Plenty times I don't think about what I am going to write. I just sit down and write. |
| What type of reading inspires you to write? Just about anything can inspire me. I may hear two people talking at lunch. I get a lot of ideas from my Dad who tells me old stories about long time ago. I have worked all over and met a lot of characters. They inspire me. I also have a great imagination and just make a lot of stuff up. Inspiration for me can come from anywhere. |
| What do you think are the basic ingredients of a story? The basics of a good story are a great plot and wonderful characters. Without either of those you really don't have a story. |
| What voice do you find most to your liking: first person or third person? I do much better with first person. I can put myself in my story then. But I write stories both ways. |
| What well known writers do you admire most? Hemingway, Faulkner, James Patterson are a few of the main ones, but I love all writers. Anyone who sits down to write is a person I admire even if they don't do it real well. |
| What is required for a character to be believable? How do you create yours? I try to give my characters a conversational tone. That makes readers identify more with them and that makes them more believeable. You can write a Cajun accent into a piece, but Cajuns will use terms and dictate words a little differently than everyone else. So I put that in my writing and it makes the whole body of work more readable and believeable. |
| Are you equally good at telling stories orally? You better believe that. I am much better orally. |
| Deep down inside, who do you write for? Mainly for me! But I want to leave my family especially my nieces, nephews and great nieced and nephews and on down the line something to remember me by for years and years to come. |
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J. D. LeCoq
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