
First Draft - Jacinda Townsend
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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The Choice of a Woman in a Car Accident
i want to talk about the repeated refrain of choice in your novel. You start with a very deliberate line that's almost the same for each story. In one you say, and what, after all, to make of a choice with capital c? The other is: Choice is no more than a bas line that disappears in fierce wind. i'm hoping it makes the reader sort of interrogate the dea that one of these women is really having such a better time than the other.
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