Ask the Author: Cs. Szabó Sándor
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Cs. Szabó Sándor
Since 2015 I have been working on a multi-volume biographical novel on Martin Luther, telling his life and story from the very beginning to the very end. As far as I know it is quite a unique enterprise not only in my mother tongue, Hungarian, but also on international level. Originally it was a trilogy (The way, The truth, The life), but due to some distributor's financial problems the original publisher cancelled the project and though I found a new publisher (as a matter of fact, I got almost offers by two big publishers at the same time) the number of the volumes was reduced to two. Some serious editing was necessary and I have to cut out some chapters that I liked very much. In my novel the chapters are not only about Luther but there are some part depicting other important characters of the age. From these removed chapters I created a short novel, listing five of Luther's early adversaries and I translated it to English as a separate short novel. This is the Luther Five Asides, my first English fiction. Currently I am working on the second part of the Luther novel (in Hungarian), the first part will be published in October 2017, by the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
Cs. Szabó Sándor
At the moment I am writing a very long novel so having a writer's block is part of the business but waiting for the inspired moments not: you can never finish a long novel if you only write when you feel like writing. My method is the "only the next sentence" - I only force myself to write one next sentence and no more. One sentence is always in the pipeline and sometimes - not always - this only sentence opens the way for the next paragraph or the next page and so on. If not, I just write one sentence and it means I am one sentence closer to the end...
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