The Last Line with Barbara Bickmore

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We asked author, Barbara Bickmore, how she knew when she wrote the last line...

The only book I’ve written that ended the way I planned to end it was The Back of Beyond.  The others always surprised me. Between the start of a novel and the end, characters do things the author hadn’t planned for them to do. They take over somehow. I know I (the author) am the only one to give them life, but they take on a life of their own and dictate to me what they should do, which isn’t always what I’ve planned for them to do. They all really come full circle though I didn’t realize that until I sat down to write this. Writing is a magical and mystifying experience for me. I think that when I am writing I am in a trance, a Zen like time when I may be sitting in a chair in the present here and now, but I am really (really) somewhere else, wherever and whenever my characters are.

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