dreambydaybeagle - The Monday Morning Memo

“I usually start with two or three completely unrelated big ideas (issues that have been rattling around in my brainpan for many months) and maybe a character or two who have no ostensible connections to each other or to any of the big ideas. The challenge, then, is to bring these disparate themes and characters together so smoothly and seamlessly that it would appear that from the very beginning they were cohesive elements in a preconceived whole. I never force them to merge, understand, but patiently coax or excite them into revealing their innate hidden connections as they collide within the labyrinth of my gradually developing plot. Everything in the universe is connected, of course: it’s a matter of using imagination and research to discover the links and using language to expand and enliven them.”

- Tom Robbins, in an interview with François Happe (March, 2009)

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