Fiona Farrell and the writing process

NZ author Fiona Farrell said about her writing that the structural ideas come first to her before most other aspects and speculates that this is unusual... "It sometimes seems to me that novelists fall mostly into two categories. Some are fundamentally poets, and some are fundamentally journalists. They're either driven by the desire to play with language, or by a more journalistic focus on telling a story" she says, whereas she feels a closer connection with the way some artists describe their approach to their work, a physical process of arranging elements in space.

Enjoying emptiness - interview with Fiona Farrell by David Larsen, NZ Herald Canvas magazine, 30 March 2009 http://tiny.cc/FionaFarrell