ABSTRACT

In my essay, ‘Paying Close Attention, Thinking To Some Purpose’, published in New Writing Volume 17, 2020, Issue 3, I considered the part played by purposeful thought in a fiction writer’s creative process. Sanchia Page, 1983 is a chapter from The Former Boy Wonder, the novel-in-progress at the heart of this essay. Seen together, chapter and essay represent a continuous narrative of theory and practice designed to illustrate a novelist’s methodology.

中文翻译：

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桑奇亚·佩奇，1983

摘要

在我发表于2020 年新写作第 17 卷第 3 期的文章“密切关注，思考某些目的”中，我考虑了有目的的思想在小说作家的创作过程中所起的作用。Sanchia Page, 1983是前男孩奇迹中的一章，这是本文的核心小说。一起看，章节和论文代表了理论和实践的连续叙述，旨在说明小说家的方法论。