![]() ![]() I asked what it was like being the younger brother. I called up my younger brother and interviewed him. It’s a very different view, and his relationship with his older brother is important. Jack’s a younger brother I’m an older brother. ![]() So I just started with really basic things to help me learn how to write first person in a different voice. So when I decided to write this novel in first person, I knew that the narrator needed to be more engaging than I am, more interesting than I am. Then, making that jump to fiction was a matter of getting out of my own head.Įarly drafts of the book were actually third person, but I found that it lacked the deeper emotional texture that first person can get to. It really forced me to look at my own work from a completely different perspective. When I was submitting to workshops, it may have been the first military story they’d ever read. I had to swallow my pride a little bit, having already published a book, but it was probably the best thing I could’ve done because I got to study with people where, in many cases, I was probably the first military veteran they’d ever known. So I decided to go the MFA route, because I’ve always been a classroom learner. I decided after writing Kaboom that I wanted to write fiction. ![]() O’Brien is The Godfather of American war literature, so that’s very kind of you.Ĭan you tell me what it was like to transition from writing nonfiction to writing a novel? I haven’t read a war book this good since Tim O’Brien. ![]()
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