On what she discovered about herself while writing “The Incendiaries” There’s a lot of doubt in his narration and I thought this tense conveyed a lot of that doubt.
He’s re-piecing things together from what he remembers, from pieces of a journal that phoebe leaves behind. So he uses this tense a lot, especially when he’s narrating what he thinks the other two would have experienced, because he doesn’t know. When the novel is not being narrated from Will’s point of view, he’s trying to imagine what Phoebe and John Leo would have said for themselves, how they might have experienced the same events that he’s thinking about. I’m very alive to tenses in general, in prose. On why she chose to write much of the novel in the “conditional perfect” tense Then the whole book is ruined, and you may as well just start all over again. If the paragraph is ruined, the page is certainly ruined. If the sentence is ruined, the paragraph is ruined. I really do believe that if a semicolon is turned into a colon, but it should have been a semicolon, then the sentence is ruined. I tend to be so much less interested when I read, and when I watch things, in what happens than in how and why.Ĭommas are so great. It’s not even necessarily that the questions get answered, but the questions just lead to other questions. I almost always start with a question, and the central question for me with “The Incendiaries” was, “What happens when people who love each other believe entirely different things about the world? What happens as a result?”
On developing the story line and the characters Kwon visited Sacramento last year to discuss her debut novel, “The Incendiaries.” The book, which revolves around a college romance, loss of religion and a cult, took Kwon 10 years to complete.
Author RO Kwon finds joy in being completely absorbed by her work.
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