So I’m gonna just have to learn by doing. I somehow stumbled upon a route in the unconscious or in the imagination and wound up writing a novel by accident. “I realized, these aren’t stage directions. She realized that what she thought was a piece of theatre was actually the beginning of her award-winning novel. But as she kept going, building her characters, writing their stories, fleshing out the lives of Cape Breton’s Piper family, she ended up crafting a sweeping multigenerational story. In fact, that’s how it all began: visually, with costumes, set design, and stage directions scribbled on the side. Ann-Marie MacDonald always knew that Fall On Your Knees could be a play.
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