Helen Dunmore - A Fiction Masterclass

A novel gets written by accumulating thousands of tiny incements to build a scene and then another scene and so on ... shaping and revising ... seeing more with each draft. Perhaps not seeing the story in any logical order intially, simply following what tugs, what seems to want to get written

The best words come when you don't so much think of the words but instead write what you see on the 'film' that runs in your mind's eye. 

'Fiction involves so many thousands of subtle and delicate exchanges between reader and writer,' says Helen Dunmore in her Guardian Book Club article on the writing of The Seige.

Dunmore's piece takes you inside that process of writing the images that flicker in the mind - a fiction masterclass. Read it, here.

Comments

[Pam Johnson]

Glad you like it, I think HD really takes the reader inside her imaginative process

[earlybird]

thanks for this link. Really interesting.