Historical novelist Liza Nash Taylor talks about her latest work – All in Good Faith – and how she manages writing from two perspectives. ” It’s funny for me My writing process is – I’ll sit down and some days I feel like I can write dialog , I can write a scene in dialog. And some days I feel like that’s not coming to me, and I’ll just do research. So what I was finding was, I would sort of play out one characters’ story then looking back on it you can sort of see a point .. a paragraph where its’ a good place to break; where you’ve either got, like a cliff hanger to end the chapter on or it’s just a natural place for that particular chapter to end, and you switch back into the other character. But it takes a lot of juggling actually.”
In Dickens time it was all about the description and he I thought brought his characters so fully formed, to life, you had not question about what they looked like or how they sounded,… He could have twelve or fifteen characters in each book but each one was so distinctive and that to me is what really makes me want to keep going back and learning from him.
In time, wounds of the body and of the heart can heal. We go forward, even when we don’t know which direction we’re heading,
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