You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.
From Michael Ondaatje
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.
Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
3 perspectives
2 perspectives
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