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The Creative Independent is a vast resource of emotional and practical guidance. We publish Guides , Focuses , Tips , Interviews , and more to help you thrive as a creative person. Explore our website to find wisdom that speaks to you and your practice… Prelude Claudia Dey Claudia Dey ’s third novel, Daughter (FSG and Doubleday), was an Instant National Bestseller . It was named a New York Times Fall Fiction Pick, an Elle Magazine Book of the Year, a Lit Hub Unmissable Fall Book, and a Globe and Mail Autumn Best Read. Conversation Writer Claudia Dey discusses the intimacy of the sentence, rebelling against distraction, and knowing when the project is done Writing , First attempts , Beginnings , Independence , Promotion Part of: From a conversation with Shy Watson Highlights on Download as a PDF What, to you, makes a good novel? It’s a quality of aliveness, that the book itself holds a kind of sentience and originality. That I can sense the providence of the book and that it’s only that specific writer who could have written it. Aliveness, originality, and then propulsion is really critical for me. Beauty in reduction. As in life, I would never be drawn to a decorated thing, so I want an undecorated novel. You mentioned propulsion. I read Daughter in one sitting, except when I got up to feed myself. I found it very propulsive. What makes a propulsive read for you and how do you employ propulsion in your own writing? I am very aware of the idea that a book is a mechanism and you have to plant something on each page, so that the page will turn. Otherwise, the mechanism is broken. For Daughter , I think the shifting points of view created a lot of momentum. Also, where you begin and end a scene is really critical. Like Didion’s flash cuts or, I talk a lot about this lecture, Celine Sciamma’s BAFTA lecture about the making of Portrait of a Lady on Fire , in which she talked about how every scene has to be […]
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This week’s story, “ Between the Shadow and the Soul ,” is about a fifty-year-old woman named Eliza who has
The British realist director Mike Leigh loves the term “character actor,” which he uses often and with zeal. To him,
