
First Draft - Matthew Salesses
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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How Like Truth Enters Books?
I wanted to write a book about wonder I mean the title right and I was writing the basketball side of it about a time when I felt the most wonder in my life which was insanity. When I was writing Carrie's part I was surrounded by people who really needed us this sense of wonder and who really kind of were relying on it since there's very little anyone could do actively. So that also seemed like a thing right that was a part of this novel, so if I'm writing on the one hand about feeling so much wonder and then on the other hand about needing so much wonder these things kind of go together.
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