THE TROUBLE WITH FICTION.

FICTION writing; SHRIVER, Lionel; NIGHT Book, The (Book); AUTHORS; STORY plots

The article offers author's views on fiction writing and reports on the difficulties faced by a fiction writer. She reports on her interview with author Lionel Shriver at the Auckland Writers' Festival when the latter was infuriated at being called her novel a work of polemics. The author, who is herself a writer, shares the experience of meeting a journalists and reports on several facts related to her fiction "The Night Book." The author believes that writing fiction is nothing but trouble.