No phones, no computers, just me and my novel and my mp3 player.
She also put me in touch with a ballistics expert, who gave me a great twist for the end of my novel.
In my novel "Love Is a Canoe, " the boss is Helena Magursky.
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But in the past few days you've already had the papers digging up things from his past in exactly the way they do in my novel.
The publishers of my novel The Land of Stories saw the film that night and asked me to adapt it into a novel.
No, but it gave me the confidence I needed to write my novel with authority and to immerse the reader in a criminal investigation and trial.
In my novel, "The Demonologist, " the protagonist descends a set of dark cellar stairs, though he and the reader are rightly terrified for him to do so.
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While researching the lives of such amputees for my novel, I spoke to DeWalt Mix, who at the age of 27 was in a devastating motorcycle accident.
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.
Just as a race car driver might discuss the fine points of his engine, I had the hero in my novel "The Soloist" dissect the piano's inner workings in relation to a given piece of music: pedal action, tuning, hammers and bridge.
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For my first novel, "Murder One, " I wanted my protagonist, a lawyer, to defend a woman accused of murder, but I'd never handled a criminal case.
My first novel was recounted in the third person and described, with fair autobiographical fidelity, my growing up with an autistic brother.
In addition, I am writing my first novel and working on two other books.
Bonfire of the Vanities is my favorite novel, followed closely by A Man in Full.
Out in April, my latest novel, The Twain Maxim, is a financial thriller set in the Congo.
The cat, Emmylou, kept me company while I wrote my first novel.
My second novel was nearly finished, and I figured it would take a year or two, at most, to become a published author.
In my latest novel, "The Retrospective, " I tried to portray, in the form of fictional characters, the two forces that contend within me as an artist.
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I've just finished my second novel, "CyberStorm, " and look forward to the idea of writing for a living, something I hadn't imagined possible just six months ago.
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For my first novel, the choice was almost automatic.
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For my next novel, I intend to try the second person again, perhaps because it's so seldom used, with the "you" so open to interpretation (this time it will directly address the reader).
WSJ: Manil Suri, Author of The Death of Vishnu, on Narrators | Word Craft
Two years later, I found, somewhat unexpectedly, that they had a place in my second novel not as fact, of course, but as images that I could draw on to complicate and move the story forward.
And now I have my finished novel.
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With my third novel, "The City of Devi, " it seemed natural to return to second-person, in which my lovelorn heroine Sarita could address her missing husband Karun, whom she sets out to find in the desolate streets of war-ravaged Mumbai.
WSJ: Manil Suri, Author of The Death of Vishnu, on Narrators | Word Craft
In my new novel "Tiger Rag, " Charles "Buddy" Bolden (a fictionalized version of the jazz pioneer) plays the trumpet's precursor, the cornet, which I describe on page two: the carefully calibrated valves, the mouthpiece, the bell triple-silver-plated on the outside, gold-plated on the inside, the finger pieces of inlaid pearl.
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My actual first novel, started as an undergraduate at Cornell, took maybe two or three years.
Up next: a silver-screen adaptation of Jodi Picoult's best-selling novel My Sister's Keeper and a fourth installment of Shrek.
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