Im beginning to think that maybe its not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when youre with them.” Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist This is one of my alltime favourite movies, I also really loved the book. It is Anne Tylers birthday today and you know, how she starts her novels? Like this: She keeps a card file in which shes written snatches of ideas or scenes on hundreds of index cards. When the time comes to start a new novel: she turns to her file and flips through the cards, pulling out the ones that resonate with her. Then she enters a monthlong planning phase. When shes ready to begin, she writes in longhand on unlined white paper. Then she types each section as she completes it, and rewrites it again in longhand. Finally, she reads the whole novel aloud to a tape recorder, to see if the dialogue rings true. In the case of her most recent novel, she told the Guardian: I was still in the very beginning, the month of looking at that sheet of white paper and saying what can I possibly do? And I heard a voice say in my brain very clearly: The strangest thing about my wifes return from the dead was how other people reacted. A few minutes later the voice said: I have a couple of handicaps. I may not have mentioned that. That voice was the voice of Aaron, her protagonist, and the book that arose from it was her 19th, The Beginners Goodbye (2012) Since I finally decided to finish work on the novel Ive started what? 2 years ago, of which 80 depressing pages linger in my computer, I used this insipiration very much, because I just realized how much work and deleting lie ahead of me.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:14:01 +0000
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