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Continue to ChatNovel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is colored by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly, the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past. - J. L. Carr from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/novel-writing-can-be-a-cold-blooded-business-one-uses-whatever-happens-to-be-lying-around-in-memory-and