Has everyone read Lisa Tucker's outstanding article in the NEW YORK TIMES (8/22/11) on being diagnosed with a brain aneurysm while writing THE WINTERS IN BLOOM and how she postponed surgery until she'd finished the manuscript?
She writes: "I wanted to finish my novel. If anything, this goal had become urgent now that I knew this might be the last book I would ever write. I was fascinated by the way the book was changing as I went through all this. Though the novel I was writing had nothing to do with my aneurysm, the story kept surprising me as it became more optimistic, more engaged with the beauty of life. I changed the title from "The House of Doubt" to "The Winters in Bloom."
She writes: "I wanted to finish my novel. If anything, this goal had become urgent now that I knew this might be the last book I would ever write. I was fascinated by the way the book was changing as I went through all this. Though the novel I was writing had nothing to do with my aneurysm, the story kept surprising me as it became more optimistic, more engaged with the beauty of life. I changed the title from "The House of Doubt" to "The Winters in Bloom."
Check out the outstanding article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/hea...