![]() How do you go about plotting a book as intricate as this one?īefore I begin to write, I've detailed the novel's plot, and I rarely let it take an unexpected detour. It's more than just escapism from reality it's a sublimation of reality through a fantastical vision of existence. In this book, you can see my penchant for fantasy, which is obvious, but you can also see my interest in the absurd, in the element of chance, in pusillanimous characters whose lives are shades of gray. There are some themes I just love to write about, and I'm powerless to resist them. This story could only work if it were set in the Victorian era, so I took that as a challenge.Īre there themes that connect your fiction? ![]() What separates this from my other fiction is that the setting is in the past, something I hadn't attempted before out of fear of failure. Sometimes it shows up as a subtle metaphor or, as is the case with The Map of Time, in a much more visible way. ![]() In all of my fiction I always include an element of fantasy, in at least a very minor way, which I use to shatter a character's routine. ![]()
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