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Paul Kane
English
Writer
Born:
1973
Also
Book
Me
People
Sometimes
You
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I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.
Paul Kane
Life
Love
Smile
Good
You
Writing
World
Comedy
Important
Think
Good Laugh
Laugh
Someone
Horror
Most
Well
Make
Which
Special
Why
Thing
Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.
Paul Kane
Others
Broke
Hopefully
Would
Kinder
Would-Be
Tried
Some
Writers
Sure
Tested
Mixture
Than
Fix
Unexpected
Formulas
Might
Describe
Techniques
Twists
I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.
Paul Kane
Positive
People
Feedback
Dance
Other
Positive Feedback
Those
About
Seem
Something
Struck
Had
Feel
Know
Most
Also
Tap
Lot
Very
Authors
Stories
Who
Many
Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.
Paul Kane
Life
You
Job
Whatever
Own
Control
Complete
Unlike
Say
Characters
Properly
More
More Or Less
Over
Make
Got
Done
Going
Want
Stories
Them
Your
Less
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
Paul Kane
Respect
Writing
Personality
Believe
Other
Through
Writers
Like
Most
Author
Any
Fiction
Really
I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.
Paul Kane
You
Photography
Same Thing
Draw
Hoping
Some
General
General Public
Also
Well
Material
Doing
Get
Same
Going
Public
Them
Paint
Film
Thing
Presenting
I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with.
Paul Kane
Life
Me
People
World
My Life
Group
Too
Out
All-Around
Plus
About
Computer
Chat
Lean
Also
Around
Lecturer
Friends
Gets
Hang
Just
Fortunate
Special
Away
Loads
Core
I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.
Paul Kane
Good
Woman
Quality
Damn
Too
Say
Berry
Only
Know
Obvious
She
Halle
Because
Halle Berry
Audience
Does
Moment
Appeal
Popular
Star
Actress
As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
Paul Kane
Myself
Patience
Persistence
Win
Goals
Year
Those
Out
Kind
Must
Find
Tend
Take
Writers
Come
End
Achieved
Anymore
In The End
Next
Next Year
Things
Set
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.
Paul Kane
Work
Strange
Book
Constantly
Adventure
Industry
Comic
Comic Book
Coming
Up
Artist
Maybe
Wanted
Stories
English
Actually
Assignments
It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing.
Paul Kane
Me
Writing
Remember
Lost
Down
Complete
Relatively
Later
Though
Dream
Easy
One-Night
Finish
Having
Write
Head
Idea
Because
Souls
Came
Cave
Began
Up
Waking
Waking Up
Story
Then
Thing
Start
Night
I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.
Paul Kane
Dark
Light
Care
Down
Say
Sun
Bother
Fires
Know
Likes
How
How Much
Caves
Anyone
Them
Much
Used
Who
They Say
Why
Actually
The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.
Paul Kane
Alone
Book
World
First
Think
Else
Collection
No-One
Like
Most
Also
Terrifying
Came
Being
Where
Being Alone
Story
Title
Mean
Thing
Utterly
Night
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.
Paul Kane
Work
Best
Sometimes
Word
Black
Down
Back
Plot
Phrase
Write
Writer
Come
Around
Mate
Hear
Little
Notebook
Then
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