![]() ![]() I considered carrying it around in a paper bag. Indeed, for me, reading The Source in public felt a little embarrassing, like wearing a Young Judea tee shirt that doesn’t fit anymore. My parents must have had a copy of that novel, along with Golda Meir’s My Lifeand Moshe Dayan’s Living with the Bibleon their shelf just belo w their very scary portrait of David Ben Gurion. Of course, my character would have read The Source. What are the rhythm of her thoughts– this theoretical girl of mine? How would she see the world? The key thing early on is this: getting inside my character’s head. I begin generally, write most of a draft, and save specifics for a point when I better know the direction of my story. When I begin to research a novel that takes place in the past, I tend to use what I call the sandwich method. ![]() She’s smart and single-minded, and even if I don’t share her politics, I like her a lot and am curious to find out what will become of her as she heads to Israel for a year of volunteer work on an archaeological dig. ![]() ![]() My new novel will take place in 1970, and a central character is a young American Jew, and a member of the Zionist Youth Group Habonim. ![]()
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