![]() You hear interior decorators say the same about a shade of paint. Once the tone is there, all else follows. Worrying over the first 20 pages is a way of working on the whole novel, a way of finding its structure, its plot, its characters-all of which, for a Micro Manager, she says, are contained in the sensibility of a sentence. ![]() When you can settle on a tone, the rest of the book will find a groove. It is much like winding up a toy car and then letting it go. Opening a variety of novels, you can recognise Micro Managers – there will often be a block of stilted wording which loosens and relaxes after the 20-page mark is passed. Yet while this is happening, somehow the work of the rest of the novel gets done. It’s a kind of existential drama, a long answer to the short question What kind of a novel am I writing?’ This induces a special breed of pathology for which I have another ugly name: OPD or obsessive perspective disorder. I have to be very careful: the whole nature of the thing changes by the choice of a few words. Smith says, ‘When I begin a novel I feel there is nothing of that novel outside of the sentences I am setting down. Their novels exist in the present moment and are written line by line. ![]() Micro Managers, in great contrast, have no grand plan. As they progress, forwards or backwards, their difficulties multiply with their choices and they exchange possible endings for one another, take characters out and put them back in, reverse the order of chapters and perform radical surgery on their novels: moving the setting of a book from London to Berlin, for example, or changing the title. Many Macro Planners, she states, begin writing their novels in the middle. This structural security gives him a great deal of freedom of movement. For example, if a manager is aware of changes in economic conditions. ![]() Book Studies Life Sciences Linguistics and Semiotics Literary Studies. A Macro Planner organises material, forms a plot, and moulds a structure before deciding on a title for their work. It is important for managers to understand the macro environment in order to. The Macro- Social Meaning of Money was published in Money Talks on page 145. You will recognise a Macro Planner from his Post-its and notebooks. They are a little over-simplistic but give a good idea of how differently people plan their writing. To continue with Zadie Smith’s words on writing, I’d like to look at her breakdown of writers into two categories. ![]()
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