Before I Write A Novel, Images Float

I Wrote The Dickens Book Because I Loved Dickens, Not Because I Felt A Kinship With Him, But After Writing The Book It Seemed To Me That There Was At Least One Similarity Between Us And That Was That Dickens Loved To Write And Wrote With The Ease And Conviction Of Breathing. Me, Too.

The Only Siblings I Have Are Half-siblings. My Nuclear Family Would Have Been An Extra-suffocating Threesome. Instead, I Have An Interesting Brother And Sister, In-laws, And Darling Nephews.

Before I Write A Novel, Images Float Around In My Head That Work Like Icons - They Are Meaningless In Themselves, But Serve As Reminders.

Well, In Fact Everybody - Everybody - In The Entire Nation Has Enough Stuff In Their Life To Write About That's Interesting That They Could Write Their Autobiography. And In The End That's Why I Find People Interesting.

Eavesdrop And Write It Down From Memory - Gives You A Stronger Sense Of How People Talk And What Their Concerns Are. I Love To Eavesdrop!