Mylene dressler biography

Interview

Mylène Dressler compares writing a first novel to drawing a map to a place you've never seen but are longing to get to; while writing a second book is like standing with that beautiful map in your hands.

Mylene dressler biography

Read her interview to find out why she says this.

How was writing this novel different than writing your first?
I think I can best describe it by saying that writing a first novel feels like drawing a map to a place you've never seen but are longing to get to, while writing a second is like standing with that beautiful map in your hands—only it doesn't describe the new country you're in.

All the experience of having made that first map—of writing—goes with you, of course, all the gained knowledge of structure and form and character. But with each new work, the way "through" has to be found all over again.

When I began writing The Deadwood Beetle, for example, I had to dis