Joyce Carol Oates on creating characters in fiction
Ms. Oates, rambling a bit, reveals that during “the first six weeks” of a writing project she is quite miserable. This is somewhat surprising to me, because I find beginnings exhilarating but bog down in the middles. Maybe she is working out the difficulties earlier on, and that accounts for how prolific she manages to be.
Posted: October 12th, 2007 under authors, fiction.
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Comment from DMS
Time: October 14, 2007, 8:21 am
As strictly a reader, I find such information fascinating.
Comment from laurence
Time: October 16, 2007, 2:31 am
Oates gave a talk last June on The Grave Digger’s Daughter. She said that novelists have to keep trying, learn from their mistakes, and hope. If you would like to see a write up of her talk, check out TheBayAreaIntellect.
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