Allein / Alone Erzählung / Narrative Konto / Account Roman / Novel Schreiben / Write Sie / You Sitzen / Sit Weben / Weave Wenig / Little
If you don't have nerves and a little trepidation about any new project, then I don't think you're really alive.
It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues.
It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.
Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.
The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.
We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.
They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.
