It takes me a while to sink the emotional roots I need to have in place into any novel
I find this true for me, too. Since I'm a "method acting" sort of writer, I need to get the voices of my characters resident in my brain, to immerse myself in the feel of the book. Since every book has a different feel and tone, there just isn't room for more than one at a time, for all that I have tried to make that work.
I can work on short nonfiction articles alongside novels; they seem to occupy a different bit of brain.
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Date: 2004-07-08 05:02 pm (UTC)I find this true for me, too. Since I'm a "method acting" sort of writer, I need to get the voices of my characters resident in my brain, to immerse myself in the feel of the book. Since every book has a different feel and tone, there just isn't room for more than one at a time, for all that I have tried to make that work.
I can work on short nonfiction articles alongside novels; they seem to occupy a different bit of brain.