The movie script novel Posttraumatic

I was asked why my new
novel Posttraumatic is so much shorter than my earlier Asgard Park and I want
to share the answer.

Asgard Park got great
reviews but many told me is was taxing to deal with so many leading characters in
subordinate situations that fractured the story line. You had to be on your
toes or you got lost.

As an engaged writer, I already
understood the mosaic I was laying but for the reader, the bits would remain a puzzle
until they came together at the end.  

I realized that if I
were to write another novel, it would be advisable not to lead the readers along
such an equestrian jumping trail but give them a easier read without skimping
on the quality. The question was how to reign in an author bursting with ideas
and keep his many sidesteps in context.

Having the premise of the Posttraumatic novel in my head, I decided to write it first as a movie script
to keep me on the straight and narrow.  Little
did I realize what a straitjacket that format is; a hundred pages of spare text
to deliver an entire story and dialogue across to a reader.

When I had this script skeleton
finished, I had a story structure that did not stray from the mainline
injection of its premise. First then, in the absence of moving pictures, did I start
writing the novel itself and relay the inner life of its main characters . And
must I say what a lean, mean, tongue in cheek story Posttraumatic turned out
to be.