A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
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However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.Helen Dunmore
Many chapters are headed by poem quotations. These epigraphs are another way of shining light on what is happening at this stage of the novel.
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Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
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I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
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