S5 Ep43: Ayobami Adebayo, novelist
In Writing with Hattie Crisell
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The Importance of Imagination in Fiction
It began with something that I noticed so I was leaving in a city called Ife at the time and I'd leave there since there was maybe seven. One day I was coming back from work and there was some traffic and I had to take another route to get home when we drove past this really poor neighborhood. It's almost like the character at a certain point becomes fully formed enough that they can start to show you the direction that the story should go in. it's just I find that fascinating it's like a sort of alchemy yeah.
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