Interview

Interview to the correspondent of the newspaper "Who grazes in the meadow? The whole truth about the world show business!"

Correspondent
- Hello, Mrs. Iren, the topic of our new meeting is your book, which, as I know, you recently finished writing. Is it true that you wrote it in ten days?
Iren Mut
-Yes it's true. Thanks to the ability to dictate a book using a computer program, I wrote the book very quickly. Yes, I wrote it exactly ten days. I love to set challenging goals and accomplish them.
TO.
- Incredible! But perhaps the book is very small in terms of words?
Iren Mut
- No, it's a regular standard book. It contains the number of words that is required in the editorials. Books below this volume are not quoted.
TO.
How did you manage to write a complete book in such a short time?
Iren Mut
- Until computers came into general use, I typed my books on a typewriter. If I were to write my book in this way even now, it would probably take six or eight months, or even all ten, to write this book.
If I had been typing on a computer keyboard without the help of a dictation program, I would probably have spent three or four months. Well, with the help of this program, I managed to do it in ten days.
TO.
-Your readers are probably in anticipation and eager to immediately know what your new book is about?
Iren Mut
- Okay, I'll share! Although this is no longer a secret. This book, no matter how trite it may sound, is about love. However, in addition to love, the book contains fatal secrets: revenge, betrayal, murder! There is also a slight note of mysticism. The intrigue of the book is that a girl who graduated from a prestigious educational institution in America, a girl who speaks four languages, gets a job as a simple housekeeper for a lonely Korean man. However, everything is not so simple. To get this job, the girl takes part in... the casting of housekeepers. The fact is that the man in whose house the girl is going to work is a movie star. The young man is lonely, sick and has not believed in love for a long time. The whole life of this man is filming, filming and filming again, and everything that accompanies filming, that is, meetings with fans, photo shoots, and so on. The girl is young, pretty and has a strong character. What do you think will happen at the end of the book?
TO.
-Oh, I even wanted to urgently buy a book and read it!
Iren Mut
- Just do not look at the last page ahead of time!
TO.
- I won't, I solemnly promise and swear! To be honest, I already read the beginning of the book on one of the book sites where the book is posted and was intrigued. The book is very easy to read, perhaps it was written easily?
Iren Mut
- Well, how can I say, of course, I did not experience torment in search of plot twists, but otherwise it was a hell of a job. I couldn't put the writing process aside and do something else. I literally worked day and night. Yes, I wrote at night too. The plot unfolded in my head as if someone was dictating to me and I was afraid to interrupt this process. The program with which I dictated the book is not perfect, it makes mistakes, distorts the endings, inserts its own words instead of those that I dictate. And so, after dictation, I saved the text on the computer and began editing and checking the text. Of course, I worked much faster with the help of the dictation program, but I could not do without the standard Word program.
TO.
-That's how? It's a pity, but I wanted to switch completely after our interview to this program in order to write my notes.
Iren Mut
-Nevertheless, try it, maybe you will be more lucky, maybe you will have a more perfect microphone. Yes, the program even puts punctuation marks, commas, periods, if you ask it to! By the way, about points, having written a book and put the last point, I moved it figuratively speaking away from me for six months. I have such a rule, I reread what I wrote only after six months, or even after a year. This is necessary in order to make it clear what kind of thing I wrote. Good or bad, what is recorded, is it interesting, is the plot catchy?
TO.
-So what? Does it catch? Captivating?
Iren Mut
-A writer is always dissatisfied with his work! I feel the same way about my books. However, magic happened with this book. Opening the file with the book, I forced myself to stop thinking about the style of the book and the mistakes, stopped thinking about myself as the author of this book, and suddenly ... I read it. Maybe this happened because the plot is based on a story about a real person.
TO.
-Yes? And I thought the main character was a fictional character.
Iren Mut
-Not. The protagonist of the book is a person who actually exists. But the plot and the proposed circumstances where I placed the hero are almost all fictional. Probably only fifteen percent of the book, what happened to this person in reality, the rest is fiction.
TO.
- You, of course, will not reveal to me the name of the person whose story formed the basis of the book?
Iren Mut
-Of course not. Otherwise, you will not be interested in reading. But, there are hints in the book, following these hints, you can get to the real prototype of the book. There are a lot of hints.
TO.
- May I ask a modest question? You probably like the actor who is taken for
base of your hero? Perhaps when you wrote the book, you associated yourself with the main character?
Iren Mut
- Yes, the question is really not modest, but I will answer it. Without personal interest in the main character, this book would certainly not exist. But... In the process of writing, I was two people, him and the main character. I went through all the plot twists with them. Rather, they passed along with me, because they are me. My thoughts, my feelings, my judgments about this life. However, there was something in which I was not in control, I'm talking about plot twists. Here the heroes acted on their own. I put them in the proposed circumstances, and then they themselves led the plot, and I just wrote it down. In any case, this is how I see the process of writing a book.
TO.
-Why is the main character in your book Korean? Why not American, Russian or Chinese? I know that seventy percent of your books are about China, why did you suddenly change your main theme?
Iren Mut
-No, I didn't cheat on anyone, I'm a very loyal person! Do you know that until some century, Koreans did not have their own alphabet? They used Chinese characters. Only after one of the Korean emperors came up with an alphabet did the Koreans gradually move away from hieroglyphs. Yes, and at the very beginning, the Korean alphabet was for commoners, and the aristocrats continued to think and write in hieroglyphs, and only somewhere in the eighteenth century did the Korean alphabet firmly enter the life of literally all sectors of Korean society. Therefore, as you understand, the connection with China is very Koreans are still strong, although they sometimes try to deny it.
TO.
- I do not quite understand your idea.
Iren Mut
- Okay, I'll explain now. China is the dominant in the centuries-old Asian melodies, this applies not only to Korea, but also to Japan. The main character of my book, although a Korean, is a descendant of the great Chinese philosopher Confucius. This is one of the real facts. Oh, I'm sorry, I let it slip! This is one of the hints. Walking through it, you will understand, you will recognize the name of the actor whose story formed the basis of the book.
TO.
-Our interview is coming to an end. I wanted to ask if there was an opportunity to meet the actor in question, would you take it?
Iren Mut
-Probably not. I placed the hero in my proposed circumstances, he lived as the circumstances ordered. In real life, the actor is of course a completely different person, with his own advantages and disadvantages. The basis of the life of any actor is his roles played, it is there that he is alive, real. When the filming is over, the actors very hard part with the life of their on-screen image. No, what I see on the screen is enough for me. And I think that if this book somehow miraculously fell into the hands of this actor, he would not recognize himself in the book hero. And... You know what I thought when I re-read my book a year later?
TO.
- No, of course I don't know. Tell me?
Iren Mut
-Yes, I'll tell you. After rereading the book, I regretted that the story was already over. And hysterically, what thoughts and feelings will you have, my dear readers, when you read my book "Korean Lovers"?