Christina French
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Leo Vardiashvili:
Thank you for this beautiful book. It was so beautiful it felt like a piece of music. Curious if you find yourself rereading your own novel just to be with your beloved characters again? (I just want to reread it to be with them in that ratty car.)
Leo Vardiashvili
Ratty car!? How dare you! Shameless slander! Nodar would have a conniption over that comment :)
The Volga is the king of cars, as he says.
Joking aside, I can categorically say I don't re-read my novel for two reasons.
One, I've already read it (especially certain parts of it) probably close to a hundred times in the process of drafting, re-drafting, and of course editing it incessantly. I've had enough. No mas, please. Having said that, the characters are still vivid in my head. Can't get rid of them...
Two, I can't re-read it because when I tried, I immediately found things that I want to improve, polish and edit. And of course that's not an option - that ship has well and truly sailed. So re-reading would be a form of torture. But again, the characters and what they might say in a given situation are very much still with me.
I've rambled, but I hope I answered the question somewhere in there.
Thank you for the kind words by the way - it genuinely means a lot to me. In what way did it feel like music? I've not heard that before...
The Volga is the king of cars, as he says.
Joking aside, I can categorically say I don't re-read my novel for two reasons.
One, I've already read it (especially certain parts of it) probably close to a hundred times in the process of drafting, re-drafting, and of course editing it incessantly. I've had enough. No mas, please. Having said that, the characters are still vivid in my head. Can't get rid of them...
Two, I can't re-read it because when I tried, I immediately found things that I want to improve, polish and edit. And of course that's not an option - that ship has well and truly sailed. So re-reading would be a form of torture. But again, the characters and what they might say in a given situation are very much still with me.
I've rambled, but I hope I answered the question somewhere in there.
Thank you for the kind words by the way - it genuinely means a lot to me. In what way did it feel like music? I've not heard that before...
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Riana
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Leo Vardiashvili:
I promise this is my last question, Leo. I have been thinking about your characters and their various exploits, and I am burning to know whether you roughly plotted where the characters were heading before hand, OR if the characters led you into writing different situations/locations that you had not planned. I have heard that this can happen. Is it a fair question?
Riana
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Leo Vardiashvili:
Hello again Leo, I have been re-reading parts of your book. Your story certainly deserves a second read, for the wisdom spoken by various characters. Does this acute observation of life come from your experience of the world? or did you find that once you arrived back in your homeland these wise words woke, vividly prompted from the surroundings, and began speaking in you like lost friends?
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