Kolar, Jane

When I began to write about Fitzwilly in 1993, it was a period of great stress in my personal life, a period of change --- job, children growing up, and so forth. It seemed as if he grew out of thin air and simply "became" as I accessed a state of my being from which I could watch him --- like in a movie. My fingers simply flew over the keys as I described what I saw him doing, feeling, and saying. It began, also, as a narrative for the most part, but then the characters began to develop of their own accord and began speaking to each other, as well. At first, I thought that Fitzwilly was a chi...