![]() ![]() Because I rarely have any notion where the book is going when I start, the reader might not also, and that can only be a good thing. For the sort of eclectic books I write the free flow of ideas and thoughts tends to help a great deal. I like to write a book a year (sometimes two) and find the immersive state of novel writing about as much fun as you can have on your own in a small room without going insane. In the Thursday books I like to bring the nature of backstories, rhetorical devices, genre and the reading process itself centre stage – in my books, narrative devices cease to be storytelling theory, and end up being narrative devices themselves. ![]() ![]() So much of storytelling is hidden like computer operating systems, doing all that they do, but invisible in the background. ![]() The series is partly meta-fiction – books about books, and stories about stories. "Oootim", as the book is known to myself, family and publishers alike, is the sixth in the "Thursday Next" series, which feature a detective who can travel into the unseen world behind the written page known as "the Bookworld". How did you come to write One of Our Thursdays Is Missing? ![]()
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