Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.
Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write.
I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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