tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post8643127186220805631..comments2023-09-25T05:45:41.437-07:00Comments on The Art of Fiction: The Loneliness of the Long Form Fiction WriterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-30866976476764524612016-05-13T13:12:58.895-07:002016-05-13T13:12:58.895-07:00All good pointsAll good pointsAdrian Slatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13946068316432524571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-29528024397999692972016-05-13T13:12:52.044-07:002016-05-13T13:12:52.044-07:00All good pointsAll good pointsAdrian Slatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13946068316432524571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-84850401191411865802016-05-09T00:43:24.861-07:002016-05-09T00:43:24.861-07:00I never wanted to be a novelist. I don't like ...I never wanted to be a novelist. I don't like the thought of putting all my eggs in one basket. As you say, authors can get lost in them (I read somewhere that novelists have more mental problems than poets do - perhaps because of the long periods of isolation and living in another world). And yes, there are sell-by dates. A writer at my local group has been re-writing 2 novels for 25 years. In that time she's been given lots of advice - add magic realism, remove magic realism and add zombies, remove zombies and lengthen it, etc. <br /><br />Of course, you can have your cake and eat it, publishing chapters as stories - Jennifer Egan, but also the "Short FICTION 2010" prize-winner, Jill Widner, who won with a chapter. 3 other excerpts had already won prizes (published in the North American Review, etc), and 4 others had been published (in Asia Literary Review, etc).Tim Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00578925224900533603noreply@blogger.com