Signing a contract for an unfinished manuscript, on Writers Bloc

Click here to read my piece onWriters Blocabout signing the contract forCaptivesbefore it was finished, and the ensuing writing process (while travelling).Here’s an extract:

I wrote a few of the stories around sessions at the Edinburgh International Book Fest, including a couple which are postmodern or referential. This reflects the fact that, like the narrator of Rabih Alameddine’sAn Unnecessary Womanwho knows Lolita’s mother better than she knows her own, I don’t like to separate out my ‘rea...