Reflections of a working writer and reader
You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always inexorably the actuality of Chapter Thirteen. But novelists write for countless different reasons. ... Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine. We also know that a genuinely created world must be independent of its creator; a planned world (a world that fully reveals its planning) is a dead world. John Fowles
On World Book Day (Thursday of this week, 1st March) I’ll be in Harrogate for an interview with Radio York. We’ll be sitting on a rather posh bed in the front window of a shop (To Catch A Dream in Montpellier Street) offering new books for old. 10.30am to 11.30am. You can listen live on the Radio York site or tune in to: 103.7FM, 104.3FM or 95.5FM.
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John Baker on the radio…
Link: World Book Day in Harrogate – John Baker’s Blog. Here’s the best thing I’ve read about World Book Day, which happens this Thursday (1 March). John Baker is in Harrogate and being interviewed on Radio York. 10.30am to 11.30am….
jb says: Thanks, Maxine. Will you be there?
Sounds like fun! Hope it goes well.
jb says: Hi Julia. I’ll post about it.
i’m not going because i dont like those radio stations oh well i hope things go well!