Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.