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Tristan Bancks

Tristan Bancks is an author with a background in acting and filmmaking. He loves the beach, space, New York City, making movies, flying, ice cream, theme parks and mind-blowing inventions. Mac Slater Hunts the Cool was his first book for... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. ‘Be Scary’ I borrowed it from filmmaker, Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, Spy Kids) and it became Mac Slater’s motto in 'Mac Slater Hunts the Cool', too.
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Why Writers Write
By Tristan Bancks - March 17, 2010
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In my book, Mac Slater Hunts the Cool (out April) Mac is trying to work out what ‘cool’ is,whether it matters, and if he cares about it. He finds something on ‘Flow’ onthe web. ‘Flow’ is that feeling when you’re so involved in what you’re doingthat the rest of the world melts away. You forget about time. I was speaking toa friend on the weekend, Gus Gordon, a talented author / illustrator, and hetried to capture why he writes and he explained this exact feeling. Andthis is why I write, too. Every day I show up, waiting for the moment (or hour) that I‘disappear’ and my whole world becomes the story. (Check out a very cool Ted Talkon Flow by the term’s founder at: http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html )

I hope you find Flow in whatever you're doing today.

Tristan.