Q: What would be your number-one tip for an aspiring writer?Ī: Stop looking at the end goal – which is very off-putting if you haven’t got a guaranteed publishing deal – and just enjoy the process of writing in and of itself. Often I have the final sentence in my head long before I get to it, so I know when I’m done when I finally get to write that sentence down. By the end of the book, I’m normally writing around 2,000–3,000 words a day.
It always takes me a while to get going, but the more I write, the more I write. Although I don’t plan every detail, I like to have a very clear idea of my characters and where I’m starting and ending before I actually begin writing. Q: Describe the process of writing the novel – how long did it take? When did you decide it was done?Ī: I spent as long planning SIX (four months) as I did writing it.
That night, I came up with the idea for my first book – The Ability – about the mind powers that all twelve-year-olds have for one year – powers that nobody wants children to find out about. I told him I wished I could tell him that he did. Vaughan tells us about the writing of the book, and how her experience of working in SEN education inspired her to become a children’s author.Ī: I was talking to one of my students who was having a difficult time at home, and he said that he wished he had super powers so he could make things better. Vaughan’s SIX is a thrilling tale of technological innovation and unknown worlds, featuring a telepathic family (with a pet pig), who must solve the mystery of their missing scientist father, and take on the evil corporation known as ‘SIX’. Yes, he will keep his promise-Christopher Lane will die-but not until he has watched Chris lose his mind waiting for Ernest to appear.M.M. Meanwhile, alone in Darkwhisper Manor, Ernest Genever is enjoying watching Chris's torment.
Chris's teachers are already concerned enough about him, especially when Chris starts to wonder if the boy may not be a figment of his imagination after all. There is no escape from the guilt, not even on his return to Myers Holt-the secret London academy where he and five others are being trained to use their mental powers, their Ability.īut now that the threat of Dulcia Genever has been dealt with, his friends are too busy working for the police, entering the minds of some of the country's most dangerous criminals, to sympathize. Telekinetic preteens use their powers for good-and evil-in this mind-bending sequel to The Ability, which Publishers Weekly called a "fast-paced, superhero-tinged spy novel."Įverywhere that Christopher Lane turns, he sees the face of the boy he killed.
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