I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.
The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and what I love about it is it delves into both sides of our cultural past, and it puts more of a human face on the Native Americans.
Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.
I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.
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