ambience. You know, you kind of know how it would feel if you were reading it. And in a way that is voice. You know, that mysterious thing that people always talk about—“Find your voice”—and you think, what does that mean? But in a way each book has its own voice and it’s finding what that voice feels like that’s important. Once you’ve got that, you’re OK. Sometimes it takes a long time to get the feeling of a novel. But characters come with it.
