Sebald Treat
The English Pen newsletter has come in with an interesting article by Will Self on W G Sebald. The Rings of Saturn is something I am saving for myself as a treat when I have eventually finished this editing.
I have gone back through the book modifying one of my characters and am now wondering about the depth of another. It is a bit like shaving the legs of a chair - a little off one, set it down, and still it wobbles - so that means a little off another... and around and around until, eventually, the chair has no legs at all, and all I am left with is a blank page.
I am on page 255 now, and think I might proceed now to the end before going back to the beginning again.
I have gone back through the book modifying one of my characters and am now wondering about the depth of another. It is a bit like shaving the legs of a chair - a little off one, set it down, and still it wobbles - so that means a little off another... and around and around until, eventually, the chair has no legs at all, and all I am left with is a blank page.
I am on page 255 now, and think I might proceed now to the end before going back to the beginning again.
Labels: character development, editing, Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
posted by Clare Dudman at 7:14 pm
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