I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own.
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I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.
I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.
I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.
My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.
I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.
When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
I love picture books - with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.
For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.
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