If I’m starting from one place, I’m trying to see how far away from that place I can get on an emotional level. For example, the protagonist of Loot develops an obsession early on, so I sensed that the arc of the novel would end with a release from that obsession, in one way or another—disappointment, disillusionment, or a different kind of liberation.
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Tania James
Indian American novelist
United States · b. 1980
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Author Tania James discusses recognizing your limitations, how teaching and motherhood shifted her relationship with time, and starting from a place of endless possibility.
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