It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
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That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.Michael Ondaatje
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
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You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.
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It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
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I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
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It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
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