As regular readers will know, my younger brother Jack has published his first novel. I am recording it as an audio book at the moment, but unfortunately I am taking longer than intended to do it. I decided to ask Jack about the book, and what prompted him to write it:
I decided to write it basically to see if I could... I've always worked with numbers* and wondered if I could use words as well.
The story came from an idea about going back in time to witness an event and discovering the event only happened BECAUSE you went back. I built the story up from there.
In Back To The Future, when Marty sees himself as an old man, I always thought that he wouldn't see himself because he is in a future where he disappeared as a teenager. That's where the Nathan disappearing story came in.
To keep track of things, I had two notebooks. One had a page for each chapter where I could write notes and ideas of what needed to happen during the chapter, and I record dates and times.
The second was a timeline so I could record the order of events from earliest to latest.
This helped during one part where two characters are having a conversation. They were the same age however now one is twenty years older, but story-wise he was further behind.
Without the second notebook, I'd have had no idea who was supposed to know what.
*He's a maths teacher.
To be honest, I found his explanation as confusing as the book!
Whatever Happened To Nathan McKenzie can be downloaded from here, and you can like it on Facebook here.
Jack is on Twitter too.
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