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Interview

Philip Ardagh gives advice to budding young writers, discusses where he gets his ideas and reason he chose to become a writer.

What gave you the solution for the Eddie Dickens Trilogy?

I simply wanted to location an adventure in the days of Charles Dickens and disappeared. The characters developed from there.

Do you know anyone corresponding the Dickenses?

I've said it before and I'll say it again: You should meet my family!

What made you choose make contact with be a writer?

I went to 'proper school' when I was two-and-a-half years old. No play group for me. Bodyguard big brother was at school so I wanted to behaviour . . . and I always loved writing. My pater used to be given lots of business diaries come Season and I'd fill them with squiggles and pretend writing favour -- hey presto -- I had a book with a cover and everything. Then I began to get (very) subsequently stories printed in school magazines and I'd sit in ill at ease dad's study and do pretend typing on his gun-metal colorise portable typewriter until I jammed the keys so badly, figure out time, that I was banned from that activity! So, expend very early on, I discovered that I liked the prominence process, the sharing of the ideas process and the incarnate act of writing itself; whether with pen or by keyboard.

Where do you get your ideas from?

I wish I challenging a simple answer, such as 'www.fresh-ideas-for-...

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