Amr Abbas

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Doha Heat

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02.54 – Plays loop of music would spend 2 hours playing. 03.30 – same as writing would spend hours 04.19 – Wrote a book out of a problem, class students did not like the book Jane Eyre. 05.22 – Classical literature is tedious 05.30 – Past out just reading a page of Moby Dick, wording is so dense. 05.40 – What to make something a little more tolerable, 07.00 – Give a French a go and don’t worry if you get it wrong. 07.30 – Just like writing just write something down. 07.50 – Don’t worry if its right or wrong just do it. 08.20 – A judgment-free zone when you first write something or compose something. 08.30 – We are our own biggest judge. 08.50 – How do you stop that inner critic? 09.00 – No magic formula, just power through it. 09.10 – Just inhale two hair cow farts. No magical formula. 09.30 – The objective was to make Jane Eyre more understandable. 10.33 – Not aware of any readaptation of Jane Eyre making her a really good Batman. 10.50 – Took out the literal characters and put them in a new frame. 11.14 – Outline of the book, you don’t have to have read the original book to understand the book. 12.00 – Jane had a really abusive childhood. 12.45 – Gets locked away in a haunted bedroom. 13.30 – Similar story to Batman losing his parents at an early age. 13.55 – I love Batman. 14.36 – Jane Eyre pulls has other characters to help her. Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson, David Copperfield, and Robin Hood. 15.20 – Good guys going up against literature villains, such as Macbeth, Dracula and Frankenstein. 15.45 – Book is not too violent. 16.00 – Audience from 18 and above. 16.35 – Hopefully will get people interested in literature and investigate the characters. 17.00 – Some research into the characters. 17.55 – One of the characters is similar to the Punisher from Marvel. 18.40 – Inspired by the Walking Dead 19.30 – Went through a lot of potential characters when planning the book. 20.40 – Started reading comics, that got me interested in storytelling. 21.20 – Then went into drawing my own comics. 21.50 – Was the school student that was in the corner drawing comics. 22.00 – Then started writing short stories. 22.10 – Then got into rapping. 23.25 – Amr’s mother is Nevine Kamel, check out her show on Doha Heat 24.35 – Have a younger brother, completely different. 25.20 – I am a listener, love listening to people. 26.20 – One Direction Fan club in the education city. 26.55 – Extended universe, extend the universe for the characters. 27.50 – Working on a musical that is not related to the book. 28.10 – There will be rapping. 28.45 – Book is out on Kobo – ebook official site. 30.30 – Other publishing sites were a pain. 31.27 – Tips on self-publishing. 32.20 – An idea for another book is coming. 32.50 – Had a friend look over the drafts of the book. 33.40 – Had my Aunty critic the book although has not finished it yet. 34.10 – Since the release what has the response been? 34.30 – It's one thing to self-release but the other thing that is really hard is to sell it. 35.10 – The book is an ebook. 36.00 – Both parents believe in me. 36.30 – A little rap for you. 38.00 – Find him on Instagram 38.50 – Amr writes poetry. Performed at Words & Strings 40.30 – Going to George Town University 41.20 – Great support system for students at the University. 44.31 – Safe age group for the book + 15