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People say they got that book in them (hell, I do), but maybe a novel is mainly something you have to find yourself making as opposed to intending to make.

Is it so necessary to have ideas and images sloshing around for years, with nothing but a few prose sketches maybe, before a real project begins?

“Hezbollah attacks on Israel come amid expectations of Iranian retaliation.” (It’s a little more than a week since the attack in Damascus.)