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My Life in Books: Alexander Maksik
Sunday 08 April 2012
1. Where does the writing process begin? 'The big idea'? Chapter one? A character? For me, characters are always the way into stories and everything follows from there.
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My Life in Books: Anthony Quinn
Sunday 01 April 2012
1. Where does the writing process begin? 'The big idea'? Chapter one? A character? For me it's a character and a setting; I can't divorce the two. So for my first novel, The Rescue Man, it was an architectural historian in wartime Liverpool, and for Half of the Human Race it was a suffragette in Edwardian London. Once I had the character, and the character's name, I was away.
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My Life in Books: Kevin Wilson
Sunday 25 March 2012
1. Where does the writing process begin? 'The big idea'? Chapter one? A character? For The Family Fang, I started with the kids, Annie and Buster. I was intrigued by two children forced to protect each other from their strange parents, but I didn't know what the story would be. So I had to work hard to find a story that I thought would be good enough for them.
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My Life in Books: Jessica Francis Kane
Sunday 18 March 2012
1. Where does the writing process begin? 'The big idea'? Chapter one? A character? Each project has been different. The Report started with 'the big idea,' as you say - How does a person prepare a report about a tragedy? How does a close community survive a sense of communal guilt? - but I've written stories that started with a character or sometimes just a voice...
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My Life in Books: Katie Ward
Sunday 04 March 2012
1. Where does the writing process begin? 'The big idea'? Chapter one? A character? My experience so far has been that I'm driven by an idea. It's important for the idea to sustain your energy and enthusiasm from the first moment it occurs to you, right through to the end of the writing process. It should give you a flutter every time you think about it.
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My Life in Books: Amor Towles
Sunday 26 February 2012
1. A question from Katy Noyes on the TV Book Club Facebook Group: Where does the writing process begin? 'The big idea'? Chapter one? A character? Although I began writing Rules of Civility in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s when I happened upon a copy of Many Are Called - a collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera...
