Question and Answer Series
Session Seventeen – Luke Ritta, poetry
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| Author, Luke Ritta |
Q
As a writer do you prefer using a pen name or real name?
Why?
A
My real name, as I would like to get my name more widely known.
Q
Which genre do you normally write? Are you comfortable
going out of your comfort zone?
A
I write about everyday life with existential characters
Inhabiting most of my stories.
Q
How old are you? Male or female?
A
Male...26 yeas old
Q
Do you like cats or dogs?
A
Cats! I love cats.
Q
Tell me something about you that no one else knows.
A
My favorite song is Bob Dylan's 'Desolation Row'.
Q
Are you married, dating, or single? If you’re married or
dating; have you ever cheated on your spouse or significant other? If you’re
single; do you like to play the field?
A
I am single and very happy at playing the field.
Q
Have you ever contemplated suicide? If so, why did you
feel that was your only option?
A
No
Q
Have you ever been in trouble in school? At work? At home?
A
No
Q
Did you have siblings growing up? If so, how many?
A
One older brother.
Q
Did you have siblings later in life? If so, how many and
at what age did you get them? Were they adopted?
A
the same as Q9.
Q
Where do you get your inspiration?
A
My inspiration
comes from my travels around the world where I enjoyed taking part in many
cultures while talking to many people form
different backgrounds. Also from great pieces of art (Movies, literature)
Q
How do your approach your writing? Are more OCD? Plan
everything out with outlines and what amounts to storyboards? Or do you just
fly by the seat of your pants and work everything out as it comes?
A
I have a sort of storyboard in my head, so I know what will happen at
the start, middle and end of the book but everything else comes to me
while I am at the laptop.
Q
Do you like horror movies? Comedy? Pick your poison.
A
My favorite movies are Independent, drama's and foreign films.
Q
Do you enjoy certain types of books, but like to write in
another genre? If so, why?
A
I love reading classic aristocratic writers such as Tolstoy
and Proust, but my writing is nothing like theirs as
my personnel beliefs are totally different from them
so my books are more about down to earth people of today's society.
Q
What are you currently working on? Do you have any novels?
A
My first novel was set in the First World War and
the turbulent years that followed, so I am planning a new
novel set in modern times and on a less grand scale.
Q
Anything else that you would like to say before we end?
A
Life should evolve
around the following: great works of art, great friends, and great food and
wine and to live how you want to live. I will leave you now with a quote from
one of my heroes that sums it up very nicely. “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” Jack Kerouac
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