“There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people want to use words that come from genres to describe how this book functions because those words are accurate.” PeopleIfsWayWantWritingHumansBookDifferentUseConsciousnessNovelFunctionVarietyGenreDifferent WaysAccurateDelightedHuman Consciousness Author:Emily Barton
“One of the things that's exciting for me about this novel is that, to me, Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron were both, in certain regards, crypto-steampunk. They're both books that are interested in an alternate technological past that in fact didn't historically come to pass. If you were to ask me what my novels were about, I would say, well, these are novels about technology and how we relate to technology and what technology means.” IfsWellsMeanBookFactsPastCertainAsksTechnologyNovelExcitingRegardRelateAsk MeTechnologicalTestamentSteampunk Author:Emily Barton
“I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of things that are not only real problems, but that are manageable, solvable problems if you look at them in an individual fashion, and lumping them under the umbrella of something mysterious and vague, which makes it very, very difficult to address what's going on.” IfsThinkingLooksIdeasRealSelfProblemIndividualDifficultFashionBlockMysteriousAddressesVagueUmbrellaReal ProblemsWriter's BlockManageable Author:Emily Barton
“If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.” IfsThinkingWritingYearsToo MuchWeek Author:Emily Barton
“It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.” IfsYearsHas BeensBookHardBerating Author:Emily Barton
“I feel that there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into fantasy and there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into pessimism, but that, in fact, the novel as it has developed should, if it's functioning correctly, have equipped you as the reader to make your own decision about where you want to go with that, about where you're going to fall on that continuum. So, the novel is taking you directly up to the point that you have to choose, and it's letting you do that.” IfsWantFeelsShouldFactsFallDecisionFantasyNovelReaderLeapPessimismContinuum Author:Emily Barton
