I got - and I apologize to all currently working journalists - a really large cheque. Three days later I was down in Beverly Hills investigating this art swindler and I enjoyed every minute of it. He's got to write for us." So he called and I wasn't a writer then. Famously, he read a postcard I'd written on someone's fridge and said, "We've going to call this guy. He'd been there eight years at that point. The first writer I ever worked with was Malcolm Parry, who was with Vancouver Magazine back in the late 1980s. Rudy Wiebe asks, "Who helped you most in becoming a writer? How?" If Superman and Batman were both run over a bus, I suppose I'd miss Superman more.Ĥ. I always liked horror comics and, to an extent, Archie. You really have to put yourself in a place every single day. I think writers are kind of like birds if you see a bird on a branch at 3:30 in the afternoon it will be there the next afternoon at 3:30. I think good advice for any writer, but also a young writer, is to make sure that you're always in the same place every day because that's the only way it's going to happen. Robert Wiersema asks, "If you could give one piece of advice to a fledgling writer, what would it be, and why?" That's what I think is the spiritual side of it.Ģ. You don't know what will be revealed or what won't be revealed. Writing a book is like a protracted trance and part of being in a trance is mystery. I think what happens with writing for me, but I think it's all writers, is that you discover things about yourself along the way emotions that were buried or concealed, or feelings you had or didn't have for somebody. Marie-Claire Blais asks, "What is, for you, the spiritual aspect of writing?" His other books include Hey Nostradamus!, jPod, The Gum Thief and Bit Rot and art has appeared in the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.īelow, Coupland answers eight questions submitted by eight of his fellow writers in the CBC Books Magic 8 Q&A.ġ. Douglas Coupland's game-changing novel Generation X turned 25 in 2016, and we feel old now.
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