That's an excerpt from Christa Faust's LiveJournal, a daily look at the schedule, deadlines, and obsessive mind of the writer who wrote the novelization of the Snakes on a Plane movie. Instead of political rants or celebrity gossip, her blog gives you a first-person look at how hardboiled novels like Hoodtown get written.
Welcome to the second installment of my interview with Christa Faust, part of my deceptively simple feature: Five Easy Questions. In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a serialized set of weekly interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing.Jason Boog:
You have a LiveJournal blog and beautifully-illustrated website. How did that develop? How does it help you interact with readers?
Christa Faust:
Internet presence in general and blogs in particular have become more and more critical to any writer that wants to make a name for themselves...
The traditional Catholic model of the big New York publisher as priest/middleman/filter standing between the writer and the fans just isn’t only choice anymore.
Fans today want a greater level of involvement and intimacy with the writers they love and it has become much easier for writers to connect directly with their fans via the internet. There’s a kind of new grass roots democracy affecting all creative endeavors from music to visual art to film.
Look at the Snakes on a Plane phenomenon. That’s a perfect example of the raw power of internet fan buzz.
The way I see it, my website acts like a gateway drug. A resume. The way in for people who have no idea who I am. If someone finds my site and is interested to know more, then they can check out the blog and get something more intimate and fresh.
Want to know more about writing tie-in novels for movies?
Tune in tomorrow for another exciting edition of Five Easy Questions for Christa Faust!
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