Today we are talking to Dwayne Fry, author and all-round good guy
Question 1: A lot of your writing has a dark side. Would you say that comes from a dark place inside you or is it purely fictional?
It’s not fictional. I write about life, the way I see it. Some of it
is light, some of it is dark. There are some lovely and wonderful things about this world, but there’s some horrible things, too. Good writing needs conflict and the characters need to be challenged and put to tests or the reader will never really see what they’re made of.
It’s hard to do that and keep the story light. Also, I am a huge fan of a number of authors who had a fairly bleak view of life and wrote some depressing stories. I’ve been listening to a lot of Hemingway, Golding, Steinbeck, and Vonnegut in my car lately, too. Not the cheeriest of writers, that lot.
Question 2: If you could have a holiday (sorry vacation) anywhere in the world where would you go and what would you like to see?
Heh. I’m nearly fluent in British English, so I knew what you meant by “holiday”. I’ve never been out of the United States and there are a number of places in the world I’d love to see, such as Spain, Greece, and Australia. But, I think my top destination would be San Francisco, California here in the U.S. I have always wanted to visit Alcatraz. I’d spend the night there if they let me.
Question 3: If you could walk into the pages of a book, which would you like to be a part of? And who would you take along as a sidekick?
My favorite novel of all time is John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany, and I think it would be fantastic to sit down and pick Owen’s brain a while. Every time I read it, I’m completely enchanted by that character. If my sidekick must be a real world person, I’d choose my wife or my brother, as they’re the two people I enjoy doing things with the most. But, if I could pick a fictional character, I’d pick Claude Bonhomme or maybe Nadia Popescu from my own works.
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