Hello everyone! This is part 2 of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival and we’ll be talking about RAINBOW ROWELL!
It was pretty obvious from the beginning she was to be the star of the session. When the people were guiding us to the session, they all said ‘Oh, you’re here to meet Rainbow Rowell right?” No mention of Amie Kaufman:(:(:(:(
Anyway, Rainbow was a sweet and friendly speaker. She had a very quiet way of speaking, but she wasn’t quiet (if you get what we mean). However, she informed us that she was the kind of person when they love something, they LOVE it. For her, there was no moderation. It was you either loved it all the way, or you hated it all the way. And her love was for X-Men comics and Wham! the band (pretty cool name for band right?)
Being an author was her third profession. We’re pretty sure one was a newspaper columnist but the other has escaped our minds. She told us that those two previous careers helped influence her writing. Being an newspaper columnist especially, influenced her strategy for writer’s block.
She just writes.
She writes whatever is on her mind, no matter how aimless or bad it is. With her job as a columnist, if she didn’t write, she was fired (a very good incentive). So she said that was how she beats writer’s block. Rainbow though, much like her protagonist Cath, tended to fall back on dialogue as she felt it built character.
Rainbow is a romanticist. She writes romance because she feels romance is neglected in novels. She said love stories don’t enough romance.Too often, the focus’s on fighting monsters and the love was the secondary plot. Her 'child' (it was strange when she likened the book to a child), Eleanor and Park addresses this problem.
Amie talked about how These Broken Stars is going to be made into a TV series and IIluminae into a movie, and somebody asked about Rainbow’s books. Rainbow said she was most worried if somebody took Eleanor and Park as the characters are not ‘Hollywood’ figures and the producers might change the whole soul of the novel. (The way Rainbow wrote made us think books were sentient- a child with a soul).
We talk too much. Sorry about that. We’ll try being more concise next time. To finish this off, it was Rainbow’s first time being in Australia. Her son NEVER wanted to go to Australia (and space too) as he did a unit in school about good old Aussie and instead of loving us, he FEARED us! Apparently drop bears and murderous snakes and stuff make Australia the survival of the fittest. But both Rainbow and her son enjoy Australia now. :):)
Session ended, we got our book signed and GOSH WAS THE LINE LONG! Despite that, everyone could get a picture with Rainbow and she managed a small convo with us too. She found out we were twins and was happy when she knew we read Fangirl. She also really likes that people share books. :)
Thanks for taking your time to read this long post! So what do you think of Rainbow’ Rowell’s books?
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