Jennifer Seguin
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Claire Fuller:
I just got my friend your books for Christmas. I can’t wait for her to read them so we can discuss them! Do you find you’re evolving your writing technique with each book? Or do you have a “system”?
Claire Fuller
Hi Jennifer,
Firstly, thanks so much! Often the book I write next feels like a response to do something different from the previous book, even if in very subtle ways: so the one I've just finished - Unsettled Ground - doesn't have multiple timelines as all the others do, and I tried to write a 'nice' mother, although I'm not sure I really succeeded! The way I write seems to be the same though - start with a person in a place and write forward, editing a little as I go until I reach the end and realise what the book is about. And then another year of editing.
Firstly, thanks so much! Often the book I write next feels like a response to do something different from the previous book, even if in very subtle ways: so the one I've just finished - Unsettled Ground - doesn't have multiple timelines as all the others do, and I tried to write a 'nice' mother, although I'm not sure I really succeeded! The way I write seems to be the same though - start with a person in a place and write forward, editing a little as I go until I reach the end and realise what the book is about. And then another year of editing.
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I don't have a question, but I wanted to say how very much I enjoyed Swimming Lessons. Thank you. It's really good (and I mean *really* good), and I hope it does very well for you. Oh - and Townes van Zandt as a writing soundtrack? We won't be getting a fluffy, lighthearted RomCom any time soon then? :o) Kind regards Sid
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Claire Fuller:
I just finished Our Endless Numbered Days...it was beautifully written. It's dark, but when it's written from Peggy's innocent, brainwashed point-of-view, it is almost sweet. I found myself reading between the lines. Coming from the psychological POV of an 8-15 year old whose sole source of survival is her own father...did you intend her inventing Reuben as a way to cope with the sexual abuse from her father?
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