Chad Aaron Hall

I’m thinking about how many people were one or two iterations away from the right formula, but lacked the conviction to stay the course, the understanding that minor, subtle, successive changes can drastically influence outcome. I’m thinking about how self-doubt makes more people abandon a vision than competition or lack of funding ever will.

"Go deeper and weirder and make something that is so human and so strange that it can't be duplicated by an algorithm."

For the most part , novelists are trying to convert something present in their consciousness into a story . Yet there is an inevitable gap between the preexisting original and the new shape it is spawning . That creates a dynamic the novelist can use as a kind of lever in the fashioning of his narrative . This is quite a roundabout way to do things... See more

Start or end every day with writing about your life. There’s always something buried underneath the to do list in your head, something you didn’t realise you felt, that when written down, will make everything clearer.