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Kara Jacob
Writing History:
Writing my first novel, 'Whirling', has taken up much of my spare time for the past several years. I seriously began writing, and believing that I could produce a complete book-length story, at the end of 1997. Since then, I have finished it (several times, no less), and have learnt how to write a novel in the process. During this time, I've also written a few short stories.
My intention is to be a published novelist. I love the process of dreaming up characters, situations, crises, whole worlds for my fictive people, and somehow making something meaningful out of it. I've been thinking about my next novel, 'West Enders', for the last year and a half. Mostly I've been dreaming the characters into creation, thinking about the structure the novel should take, and trying to pinpoint what I want to say in this work. It will be a story set in the future, but not science fiction, a story about human longing and human vulnerability. I hope it will be a progression from my first "baby", 'Whirling', both in structure and fluidity of expression. I certainly hope it won't take so many years to be pampered into a publishable state.
Published short stories:-
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