In the first chapter of Daniel’s famous first novel, the main character is in a catastrophic car accident. Daniel had struggled with the section, because it occurred to him that everything he knew about horrible car accidents had come from books he’d read and movies he’d seen. The description he finally settled on, after what must have been fifty passes, never much satisfied him.
I have a well-developed phobia of dying in a car accident, and I imagine that's why I have written catastrophic car accidents into at least half of my books. There are two car accidents in A.J. Fikry. Every time I write a car accident, I, like Daniel, struggle with avoiding cliche.
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Peggy Coquet
