The document discusses the role of a novelist, emphasizing that their task is to make small events interesting rather than focusing on grand narratives. It also highlights the importance of treating characters consistently in storytelling, akin to chess pieces, and reflects on the pleasure derived from fictional adventures over personal experiences. Additionally, it notes that much of life is spent anticipating future events or imagining past stories.
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The document discusses the role of a novelist, emphasizing that their task is to make small events interesting rather than focusing on grand narratives. It also highlights the importance of treating characters consistently in storytelling, akin to chess pieces, and reflects on the pleasure derived from fictional adventures over personal experiences. Additionally, it notes that much of life is spent anticipating future events or imagining past stories.
3. The bu sines8 of the novelist. is not to relate grea t events.
but to mdke small ones interesting - pa. 521
4. In writing novels and plays the cardinal rule is to treat
one's characters as if they were .chessmen. and not to try to win the game by altering the rules-for example. by moving the knight as it" he were a pawn. Rudolf f1esch (editor) The Book of Unusual Quota- tions. (London, 1959). pa. 194.
5. The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what
is to come; or in fancying what may have happened in real or fictitious story to others. I have had more pleasure in reading the adventures of a novel than I ever had in my own. - pa. 194.