Merging fact and fiction

When I was in Windhoek at the Goete-Institut, I was asked a lot about writing historical fiction, about my method and why I do certain things and not others.

Searching for the answers to these questions crystallised my thoughts in an enlightening way. Often I just do things because they seem to be the right thing to do but not with a lot of conscious knowledge about why I made those choices. It’s intuitive; I just know this is how it must be.

Being forced to articulate that is good, it pushes me to search for the whys which often teach me a few things.

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