Kevin A. Kuhn
A novel is a magic trick. It’s an illusion. As a writer you get to take as long as you like to develop your story. You get to agonize over a chapter, or a paragraph, or a single sentence for days or weeks or months. You get to rewrite over and over and over. Like a painter, you can create your base story and then add more depth and details over time. You get to find *most* of your mistakes and your inconstancies and fix them before a reader sees the first word. But the reader gets it all at once. They have the illusion that you created it in a single stroke. That the story and characters just flowed out your fingers in a single moonlit evening. That is the trick. And that is, at least for me, one of the best things about writing.
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Kevin A. Kuhn:
I used to ride the train from Cary and then Crystal Lake when I worked in downtown Chicago. It was a nice surprise to discover your use of my old line (and accurate descriptions). I feel bad that most of your readers will not have this type of personal connection to the text. Did you used to live in Crystal Lake?
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Apr 22, 2020 10:33AM · flag