![]() ![]() The lesson I've learned is that you do come out the other side with a clear understanding of what you're doing.ĭid you do much research for this book, given that it was set in your neighbourhood? ![]() Usually thanks to my wife: her role is often to lash me to the tiller and keep me there long enough to get through the bad patches. I'm obviously just not very good at this. Writing Kavalier & Clay, I had several moments of utter collapse. It happens with every book now, I hate to say. I had to start all over again, keeping the characters but reinventing the story completely and leaving behind almost every element with the exception of the birth that goes wrong – that was the only significant element that I preserved. She said she cared too much about these characters and wanted to find out what became of them. I wanted to put it aside but my wife talked me out of it. I got two years into the novel and got completely stymied and felt like it was an utter flop. But because the story was set in my neighbourhood, I kept coming into contact with all kinds of things I wanted to put into it. Nothing ever came of it so I put it aside. It began as a proposed pilot for a television series for the PNT network, around 1999. Actually writing the novel took almost five years, but the original idea came much earlier. ![]()
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