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How to Write a Novel – Half Right is Half Wrong
The largest single issue for fiction writers is not “how to write” but “what to write?” – what to have happen next, and next, and next…
We are not plagued by a lack of imagination but by the very abundance of imagination. There are too many possibilities, too many possible directions, courses, actions, etc., that we can choose for our characters to take.
Our imaginations do not fail us because they are empty but because they overflow constantly with a multiplicity of possibilities. The problem then is not lack of choices but too many of them. The question then is how do we choose? Read the rest of this entry »
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