The Current Theory

[snurri]

Novels are problems--really, they are a huge knot of problems. Where's the front of this thing? How does it go? Can I drive it from here to there? If I yank on this bit, what falls apart, and will I be able to put it back together? How do I make anybody else give a crap about this? You have to care about solving these kinds of problems in order to want to do something like this.

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[st-writes.livejournal.com]

This seems like a crystalization of the discussion a few weeks ago. That's what makes writing a novel so engaging, I think, why it's okay that it takes a long time (for me anyway).