I have always enjoyed writing children’s stories, in much the same was as I enjoyed reading them when I was child, because I never quite know what is going to happen next. Writing as I go along is not something everyone would wish to do but much the same way as I never understand people who write a whole novel on cue cards and have everything settled before they actually write the first page, each to their own.<\/p>\n
The fact that I make it up as I go along means that I can write myself into a \u00a0corner and have the fun of trying to think my way out of the problem. In my first book all the heroes were stuck on a piece of land suddenly surrounded by sea and in danger of drowning and I had no clue when I put them there what I would do next. I was very much on the adventure with them. I was told that book was too like C.S Lewis.<\/p>\n
Of course the problem is I sometimes don’t have an answer or go off in another direction but that is why we have drafts and most of my stories can go into seven drafts before I begin to feel they read well. Doing this one’s mind has a breadth and depth of its own, like a natural metronome, and I never felt good about 20,000 words stories which is probably why my present story will be in three volumes of 100,00 words each.<\/p>\n
Now there’s a story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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