
What happens when you write
People ask, 'how do you think up what to write?' Andrew Miller explains the process as 'like a dream'. When I was writing the first draft of Mesmerised the story came to me quite whole, but also in scenes. I thought of myself as the transcriber rather than the writer and went along with the whole subliminal process of getting the story down. About half way through the novel I took a trip to Paris. I had already written scenes involving the hospital where Gachet (the protagani