![]() All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results. He has no clear idea of his story in fact he has no story. ![]() – Aldous HuxleyĪ man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations. If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper. The stuff has to be transformed into oneself, it has to be composted, before it can grow into a story. At least in my experience, it doesn’t work that way. I don’t believe that a writer ‘gets’ (takes into the head) an ‘idea’ (some sort of mental object) ‘from’ somewhere, and then turns it into words, and writes them on paper. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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