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Takeshi Kaneshiro and Kyoko Fukada

One of the issues in converting from blogger to novelist is getting out of oneself.  Blogging is all about writing from the blogger’s perspective, while novel writing (I think) deals a lot with understanding and becoming your characters.  When blogging, it’s all about you.  When writing creatively, it’s all about everyone but you.  Maybe that’s why there are so few blogger-novelists.

With my novel writing, I’ve been trying to get out of myself. How does one do that?  I don’t know how others do it, but I’ve been trying to expose myself to different viewpoints whether by reading, observing, or watching. For me, it’s about stepping back away from myself, from activism, from blogging, from everything that I’m used to doing.