For a while, it's hard to separate us, and that blurring is interesting to me. When I'm reading a novel, the voice of the narrator, the novelist and me blur together. So, yes, there's a character, but there's also a reader. There definitely are some choices that I make. For instance, your made your narrator male. I didn't want it to just be my city or my mother or my father. I was trying to give the reader space to create the characters. Is that why you don't use proper nouns? Your heroine is just "the pretty girl" and you never identify the city, or even the country, where your characters are living. I always feel compelled to acknowledge that, so the "you" slips in into all of my novels. You, the reader of the book, are a co-creator with me, the writer of the book. In a novel, the reader is the casting director and the photographer and composes the score.Ī novelist makes half of the novel, and the reader makes the other half. A novel is just random symbols on paper, and readers then animate those symbols with their imaginations. A special thing about novels is that readers help to create them.
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