One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.
I love the word 'resonance.'
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
You don't have to resolve every problem of the book at the end, but you do have to resolve some.
The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.
On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.
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