Let the work be what it wants to be

(And other things I never thought I would say)

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Before I had written a novel I had certain ideas about the process. I saw it as primarily an intellectual endeavour - one that involved the imagination certainly - but an activity very much centred in the brain. I used to think people made up things like ‘the characters had ideas of their own’ or ‘the plan I had went out …