Which is why eventually, and in the full knowledge of what I was asking of my readers, I wrote After. I tried to push him to the very back of my imagination, behind several other books I was planning to write.īut if you’ve read any of the Felix books you’ll know he’s not a character who gives up easily. When Felix started letting me know, soon after I finished Now, that there were big chunks of his life I’d skipped over and that he needed me to go back and explore some of those times with him, I resisted. (Come to think of it, that might have been a reader driving the big car .) I know, not something a reader wants to hear.
My only excuse is that sometimes writers have to put their characters first. Which is why I regret the whiplash I may have caused my dear readers by writing this book. Years ago a big car smashed into my small car and I suffered whiplash, so I know what an unpleasant experience it is. After I woke up and had a stretch as usual and got dirt under my fingernails as usual, I heard voices above me in the barn.
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