trip, playing a game of Solitaire, working on Chapter 4 of the new novel, and doing pushups … 25, 26, 27 … And talking to you. Why, right now I am arranging my itinerary for an upcoming B.C. And I can process lots of data at once-a natural multi-tasker. Richard replied: “I drink gallons of coffee. “My ideas comes from a sealed tin that I open with a slotted key-only the key keeps snapping just as I’m about to get the lid off.”Īfter our interview, which was a whole lot more elucidating, I sent him a follow-up e-mail that ended “How do you do all the things you do? Are you sure you’re just one person?” Or this one, to the question “Where do you get your ideas from?” “… playing God and wearing my pyjamas all day.” He’s not the easiest person to research, either, because his published interviews are rife with replies like this one, to the question “What is the best thing about being an author?” The conversation is here, there and everywhere, quips finding their targets like heat-seeking missiles-sparks emanating from my pen as it tears up the page trying to keep pace with him. Richard is one of the funniest people you could hope to meet, and therefore an entertaining, though let me say not easy, person to interview. As the school’s volunteer arts coordinator, I had invited him to give a reading and speak to the kids about what it’s like to be a writer. I met RICHARD SCRIMGER a couple of years ago, when he read to students at my sons’ elementary school in The Beach area of Toronto.
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