A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
Rose TremainAny setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.
Rose TremainLearn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.
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