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Coming to Life

ideas come togetherIn my expe­ri­ence there comes a time when I am writ­ing a novel—if I’m lucky—that I com­pose a scene, a chap­ter, a moment, a char­ac­ter action —and the book comes to life.  Some­times it comes soon­er, some­times lat­er, but until you have that moment, there are more sen­tences than soul, more para­graphs than pulse. Such moments are moments of dis­cov­ery in which two things are found: you find an under­stand­ing of what you are writ­ing, and what you are writ­ing finds you. That’s to say you, the writer, have found pur­pose and direc­tion. There is no bet­ter moment in the writ­ing process. Work for it. It’s worth it. It’s also what read­ers want.

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