First, it was a workshop exercise. Then, an experimental work of fiction out on submission. Then, a small-press publication with a run of merely 500…
It was a span of 15 years. I didn't really start writing until I was 30. I took a living-room workshop in San Francisco. I had never taken creative writing classes as an undergrad. I was working in a bookstore, I had quit this terrible corporate job I had in web development, and I was figuring out if I could be a writer. I finally took this writing class and I wrote what became the first section ofin that. I put that piece in a drawer for a while.
But I diligently tried to amp-up three-act structure and resubmitted it to him; he said, "This is lovely... send me your next book." At some point I was like, "They can't sell this, that's fine." The feedback indicated I was dong the logistical stuff right, and people thought the writing was nice, but they weren't sure about it as a novel. I kind of stuck with it. I wasn't going to change the pronoun every time Paul changes his body presentation.
The thing is, I wouldn't have wanted to go through a process in a big house where marketing people were like, "You've got to do this and you've got to do that." On a first book, I don't know if I would have been able to hold to myself the way I was with Hilary at Rescue.In that it means people appreciate the book, I'm really moved and really delighted. Pedagogically and politically, I'm of the mind to smash all canons.
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