cheever-plot

August 1, 2025

I don’t work with plots. I work with intuition, apprehension, dreams, concepts. Characters and events come simultaneously to me. Plot implies narrative and a lot of crap. It is a calculated attempt to hold the reader’s interest at the sacrifice of moral conviction. Of course, one doesn’t want to be boring… one needs an element of suspense. But a good narrative is a rudimentary structure, rather like a kidney.

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“After being published for twenty years by the big houses I got tired of every book being dumped only so the publisher could come back two years later on the next book and say, Ah, but you know, the last one didn’t do well. I always had this crazy idea that I was supposed to write the books and the publisher was supposed to sell them.”

Steve Erickson

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