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“When I begin writing something new, I break out a clean, spotless notebook, and announce, to myself, that this is where the book will take shape.”
“It’s also here where I work out character details, maps, chronologies—anything, in fact, that helps the novel to exist.”
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“The notebook’s appetite grows with the process, and it soon starts to require other things beyond mere words.”
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“Nobody wants it, nobody asked for it, and along the way, you’ll have to constantly convince yourself that what you’re doing matters, because that’s the first step on the road to it actually, really existing, and mattering, out there in reality, the most unforgiving arena of all.”
“I have covered pages in paint, print, collage, scrawl, mud, even blood.”
“In addition to all of the scrawl, certain ritual habits of mine have emerged, and now recur in all the notebooks I keep.”
“Within days, I start to see what works and what doesn’t.”
“By this point, of course, the notebook will look utterly, utterly insane—but only if I’m doing it correctly.”
“What if all of this nonsense became something I could hold in my hand, see in a bookshop?”
“I also like to draw or paint a putative cover for the book, as this feels like a magical act—the act of making my hopes concrete, putting my money where my mouth is.”
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