burn between us
It was simply requiring the specific pace of something that had to be approached from very deep inside, the way you approached deep water — not with speed but with the patient, deliberate immersion of someone who understood that the depth would be there when they reached it.
He wrote three hundred words the first morning. Five hundred the second. Four hundred the third.
By Friday he had eighteen hundred words, which was less than any first week of the previous three novels and which was, he told Dante over dinner on Friday evening, exactly right.
"It's the pace of the material," he said. "The fourth novel is about the forty-year conversation. You can't write about a forty-year conversation a
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