Author, Author: Ingrid van Vliet
Ingrid van Vliet, who writes the wonderful London-centric blog, The Girl in the Cafe, is a screenwriter, film maker, photographer and artist. Her first short film, SweetArts, is looking for a producer. Ingrid was born in the Netherlands, lived in Denmark for 10 years and then moved to London in 2006. She likes writing, taking pictures and making quirky postcards. She drinks her Yorkshire tea the Milky Way.
How’s your work coming along these days? What have you recently sent out into the world?
Why do you suppose people want to know where you get your ideas?
The business of being a writer – finding an agent, placing stories and poems in literary journals, getting a publisher to buy your stuff – can be difficult to navigate. What do you wish you’d known starting out?
How do you balance the rest of your life with your writing life?
Talk about the films you’ve loved.
Do you think most writing is autobiographical?
What other jobs have you had, besides your job as a writer?
Here is where scripts are written:
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Very cool peek at the screen/film aspect of being a writer — Thank you, Ingrid; Thank you, Lily!
i love the form! bravo for surprising me (again)
–op
Great interview! Love the handwritten answers. I’m deeply envious of someone with legible handwriting.
Dear Mari, It is legible isn’t it? And European. I love sketchbooks.
Hey OP, Ingrid does that — surprises, I mean.
Hello Marie, It’s so nice to be blogging again, with the help of Ingrid’s lovely handwriting and sweet pictures. I wouldn’t know how to go about writing for the screen, but I like knowing people hwo do.
Lily, I love this! The answers are so great…and their format is really cool. Thanks for posting it!
My favourite author interview EVER!
[...] Ingrid van Vliet has a very interesting way of answering questions. [...]
Dear Lily thank you for publishing my interview! And that desk really needs tidying!
This is fascinating. It’s so wonderful to see the way other authors work…and I LOVE that desk. It looks like a very creative place to work. (I don’t think it needs tidying at all!)
What a wonderful, visual, inspiring interview. Best of luck to you, Ingrid! I hope to see your films one day soon.
How do you keep your work space so neat– my copies of “New York Review of Books” are slowly taking over!
I love the way the questions are answered. It’s like a little silent film in itself! Thankyou, Lily and Ingrid for a fascinating interview.
Very cool interview – congrats to you both. And a lovely new (for me) blog to visit too. Thanks, Lily. Good luck with SweetArts Ingrid.
Love this interview! And love TGITC’s mode of answering! So creative.