The novel cannot submit to authority.
…it’s the reader who gets to sit on that mountain, in the sunshine, reading a perfect, finished piece. … The writer is, always, down in the valley, struggling with imperfect draft after imperfect draft.
(The novel) … is written against official language, against officialdom, and against whatever fixed form the novel has begun to take—it is always dying, and always being born.
I wrote a story for a friend. But in the end, he didn’t treat me like a friend. And I’m hurt.
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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.
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