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“So I’m setting out, as so many of us do, on fresh unchartered ground, trying to stay true to my instinct – to write from some emotional truth, not a formula or bright, contrived idea. In this era of publishing, those smarter than I (like my agent) might say it’s self-sabotage, but unless I feel a hunger for the narrative as it’s appearing and hold to John Gardner’s notion of the ‘vivid, continuous dream,’ it won’t ring true.”
David Francis on playing to the crowd, writing the same book or a new book from scratch, and what to do when your agent and publisher encourage you to write a thriller.
May 12th, 2009 at 6:30 am
Nice call on this! Francis’s column was really interesting. I always want to read other writers talking about how they started, evolved, and finished their books.