I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.
From Rose Tremain
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.
Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
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