Writing a trilogy about a young man’s first romance
The novel-trilogy of which into Full Sunlight is the first part was much time in the making. This of course is often the case with a long text, which, by the time its final form materialises, has had many elements added to it, sometimes at large intervals. but living with a fictional project for a prolonged period does mean that you grow clearer about your subject-matter: you increasingly benefit from the power of hindsight and the advantages of greater mental maturity. The trilogy was one of the key endeavours by which, across the years, i sought to gauge my capacity as a writer. repeatedly, i asked myself: can i complete it? And even if i can, will it be of real literary merit, at least in my own eyes? And even if it is, will it impress the general reading public? i applied these questions to my other writing efforts as well: these were mainly in the field of philosophy.
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