![]() 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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