Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.
From Alexander McCall Smith
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen to the characters next.
I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus.
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