Word: novelness
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...which you said you felt like you were done writing about your own life. Oh, you know us memoirists. All we do is lie. I hate saying it, because it's going to sound awful: "Memoirist Says Writing 'Cathartic.' " But it is. I definitely want to write novels, but I seem to have to continue to process these other events. My next book is not a novel, but it's also not a memoir. It's a very different book...
According to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, writing a novel is a lot like playing a game of chess...
...Readers find the sensational experiences that are missing in their lives in a novel,” Pamuk said, describing the former. “The more powerful and persuasive the novel is, the more inadequate the reader feels...
...added that readers often feel “inadequate” once they realize that the world created by the novel is imaginary...
Pamuk’s second category, “vanity,” referred to the extent to which a reader becomes invested in a novel...