The Placebo Effect Blog Tour With David Rotenberg
January 30, 2012 in Author Interviews
WLP: What is your favorite part of the writing process
DR: I’m a compulsive re-writer. It can be either very enjoyable or horrid. There are times that like a jazz musician who has pulled the chords too far apart, I lose the music. That’s the worst. Sometimes there are too many fingers in the fondue, that’s not so much fun either. The initial rush to paper in interesting-often foolish-but sometimes the best. I wait a long time before I remove anything, the oddest bit of info that’s in a scene for no particular reason all of a sudden becomes the plot turn that you need. When book two in The Junction Chronicles comes out, A Murder of Crows, note the section in the duct work when he couldn’t get the screw back in. I had no idea when I wrote that, that it would become an important plot point.
WLP: Would you want Decker’s “gift” of truth?
DR: Yes and no. In my work with staring actors I use some of what Decker is able to do. I’m extremely good at telling a person’s age, background, where they were education, how many siblings they have etc. I can also detect prevarication in a second. But as for knowing profoundly when something I true or not-nah, don’t have that-and don’t think I’d want that. Having run some pretty big institutions, a theatre and a theatre department, I think it’s important to slide on the little lies to allow things to move forward-but, you must never slide on the big lies.
That business about semblant order is something that I’m particularly good at.
WLP: If not, what gift would you want to have?
I remember sitting on a bus in New York City when I lived there and looking at all the different folks there, and wondering, what could possibly appeal to so many different kinds of people? I still wonder that, and would love to have the gift that answers that question.
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Pixie gives The Placebo Effect:
A definite must read of 2012! Action packed & extremely intriguing.













