Reid

Reid asked T. Coraghessan Boyle:

How do you balance creating complex characters to embody protagonists and antagonists? Do your characters shape your stories or do your stories shape your characters?

T. Coraghessan Boyle Choice B., Reid. Everything seeps out of the unconscious as the story moves along. Every story surprises me. Which is why I keep writing. See my essay at tcboyle.com called "This Monkey, My Back," as well as the preface to T.C. Boyle Stories II.

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