![]() ![]() That’s an easy change to make in an outline, but when it’s already a whole book, it requires ripping apart nuanced transitions and connecting thoughts that were never designed to fit. I might decide, for example, that an encounter in chapter twelve would be better in chapter seven. The hardest times for me are when I’ve already written a draft and I find I need to rearrange whole passages. Is there any aspect of your writing you find particularly challenging?! All of the characters have a bit of that! Elements of my parents slipped in, too-including my mother’s love of books and my father’s knack for experimental cooking. Jackaby, for example, has a few of my mannerisms, but he adopted my wife’s zeal for amazing and outlandish lore, along with her spontaneity and adventurous spirit. ![]() ![]() My characters are mostly inspired by people in my life, but not by any one person. Where the main characters in Jackaby based on or inspired by any one person? Ritter about his novel Jackaby and this great characters. William Ritter is an Oregonian author who has released his debut novel in a series about a investigating duo in 19th century New York uncovering the strangeness beneath the everyday. Interviewed by Elvira Sanchez Kisser, Woodburn Public Library ![]()
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