It’s weird reading this back now. It isn’t one of the sections I ever used for public readings so I haven’t really looked at it since the final, final, final proofread before it went to the printers in early 2016. The first thing that strikes me as odd, six years after writing it, is the central part Indiana Jones seems to play in my conception of Christmas. In the extract from
Iain, I find reading the 'behind the scenes' about this book, that I read and found very moving and enjoyable, so interesting. Interesting because if I become immersed in a book I never think about how it was constructed or that things could have been different. The 'choices we make' is something that has come to fascinate me over the years. Years that exist now solely because of choices, almost seemingly casual, that were made 3 decades ago. Damn I can't think how to start a sentence with 'ago' without being sorry. (Sorry, as a sometime editor I couldn't resist that very salient editing practice.)
Behind the Words: Christmas, 2000
Iain, I find reading the 'behind the scenes' about this book, that I read and found very moving and enjoyable, so interesting. Interesting because if I become immersed in a book I never think about how it was constructed or that things could have been different. The 'choices we make' is something that has come to fascinate me over the years. Years that exist now solely because of choices, almost seemingly casual, that were made 3 decades ago. Damn I can't think how to start a sentence with 'ago' without being sorry. (Sorry, as a sometime editor I couldn't resist that very salient editing practice.)