{"id":2754,"date":"2020-10-22T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T17:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:30:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:30:16","slug":"before-and-after-origins-of-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/?p=2754","title":{"rendered":"Before and After: Origins of a Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Left: Pages from a hastily drafted short story, written at the Clarion West Writers Workshop<\/a> for a Very Famous Author. A lot of sweat and panic went into that draft, and it wasn\u2019t my best work, but I finished something, which I took as a triumph and better than Plan B (pack my bags and run away in the night, slinking back home never to write again). I called it \u201cMagpie\u2019s Dragon\u201d; it was about a woman who hoards magical objects and the young girl who discovers her secret.<\/p>\n

Right: That little story seed stuck with me. I wanted to explore more deeply human relationships with objects, and how we imbue them with power through our emotions and memories. A few years and many drafts later, that seed grew into THE MEMORY COLLECTORS<\/a>, a real live novel, a physical object that I can now hold in my hands. The pages pictured show the only scene that remains from the novel\u2019s origins, but I owe a debt to the workshop, my teachers, and my classmates for creating a rich environment in which this writer and her story could develop and flourish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Left: Pages from a hastily drafted short story, written at the Clarion West Writers Workshop for a Very Famous Author. A lot of sweat and panic went into that draft, and it wasn\u2019t my best work, but I finished something, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing","category-writing-life","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3055,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kimneville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}