The Creative Independent
Christopher Bollen on What It Takes to Write Novels
Bollen's version of the job is brutal and useful: every novel makes you feel like a beginner again, so you stop waiting to feel ready and write anyway.
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Electric Literature
Clare Sestanovich on the Power of the Unanswered
Sestanovich is interested in what people leave unsaid, and in how a novel can let uncertainty sit there without rushing in to explain it away.
BookPage
Louise Erdrich on Building a Novel Over Time
Erdrich does not sit down to start a novel. She lets notes and half-scenes pile up for years until the pile turns out to be a book.