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From Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Now that you have decided to begin your novel, you may congratulate yourself. You have not been asked or groomed to write a novel. You have not gone to novel-writing school, nor taken a standard curriculum of preparatory courses. Chances are, no one wants you to write your novel - if they say they do, they are just meaning that you should get it over with or get on with it. The people you know actually dread reading the novel you are about to write - they don’t want to read about themselves, they don’t want to be bored, and they fear embarrassment for everyone. You are, therefore, free.
Yes, ma’am.
More to come as seems appropriate.
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© 2008 Philip Barron. 
Free to be me and to write for me.
I imagine that Smiley would agree that that’s exactly where we should be - or at the very least, where we should start.