One of the most significant problems for me as a writer is not writing a novel, but finding a novel to write. A story, as it were, worth telling, that I will be able to commit to for perhaps a year or more of solid struggle.
I often think it is not about me finding a story, but a story finding me. I have to wait for something to grip me at quite a deep level. It has to contain the seeds of characters, of plots, of situations. It has to have the potential for a beginning, a middle and an end. And it has to excite me at some level because if it doesn’t excite me it isn’t going to excite the reader
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