Thursday July 15, 2004

Get This Man a Macro

John Irving tells the Globe and Mail that he worked on his forthcoming novel for years before deciding it was written in the wrong voice. “I don’t normally like the first-person voice and I can’t even remember what rationale led me to think this had to be a first-person novel, but for the five years I’ve been writing it, it was,” he says. “And just one morning I woke up and thought: ‘Shit. It’s not right.’ ” Now he’s busy rewriting the 345,0000-word tome in the third-person. This … this makes my head hurt.

(via Publishers Marketplace.)