The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she loses track of something that was driving her and has to figure out what's going to drive the next part of her mission, this mission to be an author. I had to push back away from her for a while before we could come up to that really lyrical close third in the final section.
Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking of Margaret near the… - Danielle Dutton
Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking of Margaret near the…
- Danielle Dutton
I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was originally this novel about all the… - Danielle Dutton
I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was originally this novel about all the…
The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she loses track of something … - Danielle Dutton
The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she loses track of something …
I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own favorite books are slim, but there's a lot of w… - Danielle Dutton
I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own favorite books are slim, but there's a lot of w…
Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as a character for a book, but my idea… - Danielle Dutton
Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as a character for a book, but my idea…
It's all just so fraught when you're writing and then going through the editorial process. It feels like this shape-shifting thing. When it's done, a… - Danielle Dutton
It's all just so fraught when you're writing and then going through the editorial process. It feels like this shape-shifting thing. When it's done, a…
So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a single mo… - Danielle Dutton
So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a single mo…
I was trying to focus on Margaret's trajectory as an artist, as a woman and an artist. Hopefully Cavendish experts won't be angry at me for anything … - Danielle Dutton
I was trying to focus on Margaret's trajectory as an artist, as a woman and an artist. Hopefully Cavendish experts won't be angry at me for anything …
There was a stage inside it and a crank on the outside that would rotate something, like a tiny tree carved of cork, onto the stage, and then the tho… - Danielle Dutton
There was a stage inside it and a crank on the outside that would rotate something, like a tiny tree carved of cork, onto the stage, and then the tho…
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