For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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