Archive for August, 2007
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Writing a Novel
Walter Percy says that a novel, for all its length, is just an extremely long name for a complex, evolving emotion that has no name but that. Flannery O’Connor says, “A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate.” Even Jesus told stories. As the dust settles from my move to San Diego and I’m managing a somewhat regular daily routine of writing and otherwise fighting off boredom, it occurs ...