Joseph Mallozzi just put up the extensive interview he conducted between OPEN YOUR EYES author Paul Jessup and the inquisitive readers in his web-based book club, who have just finished exploring Jessup’s sci-fi novella. It’s in-depth! It’s all true!

And it will blow your mind.

Here’s just a quick clip of some of the discussion going on:

“Jreece writes: “1. Your writing style, especially in terms of plotting, seems very free-flowing. I’d like to know how you approached this story. Did you actually have an ending in mind or a detailed idea of how you were going to proceed or did the story take on a life of its own and write itself?”

PJ: Yes, the ending was completely planned out.   I always have three things before I start a story: a beginning, a middle, and an end.  The rest I let bubble up as I write, letting the characters bicker and corrupt and create their own subplots.

“2. How long did it take you to write Open Your Eyes? Was it one of those cases where you sat down to write a story and the more you wrote the more ideas came to you, leading you to make it novella-length?”

PJ: About two years, from start to finish.  I don’t ever set out to write one thing ( a short story) and have it turn into something else (a novel). To me, length dictates what I can get away with.  In a novel you can’t go as free flowing as you can in a novella or a short story.  The length of the work won’t hold the weight of all that weirdness.”

Read the whole epic interview here!

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