If candor could be monetized, Eleanor Catton would be minted in gold.
and get to the end of it, all you want is to read something else. Any reading activity is a positive thing. It pushes you out of yourself.”“Emma,” Catton is at work on “a lot” of screenplays at the moment , and her next novel — another thriller set in New Zealand. Here, highlights from subjects discussed during the Q&A.It is hopeful but not optimistic…there’s something slightly passive about optimism. It’s purely interpretative. Plot is hopeful.
, actions matter. The mistakes we make matter, even if they matter for the worse. They matter because I share in great tragedy. They still change something. A novel is hopeful about change, because change is what it’s all about.
Whether the first draft is for the writer, the second draft is for the editor and the third draft is for the readerI would agree with that when it comes to a screenplay. The words of wisdom that are always bandied about a screenplay is that ais made three times. A film is made in a script. It is remade in the shoot and remade again in post-production. Those are three distinct movies, each with its own identity. For me, that isn’t true with a novel, partly because I don’t really draft.
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