Writer's Report 2.0

Nicholas Sparks, the best selling author of The Notebook and Message in a Bottle, has just published his newest novel titled “The Choice”. Like all of his novels, The Choice is set in eastern North Carolina as The Assocaited Pressreports:

In “The Choice,” Travis Parker is a fun-loving veterinarian. Gabby Holland, a physician’s assistant, moves next door, and their meeting puts Gabby at a crossroads.

The story line of “The Choice” comes from two thoughts: Sparks’ desire to return to the structure of his first book, “The Notebook,” in which characters face consequences later in life from events that happened earlier, and his time coaching track at New Bern High School the past two years.

Sparks describes a little about his writing process

“I don’t really struggle with writer’s block for extended periods,” he says while sitting at a kitchen table that bears the stains of his children’s color markers. “There are times I struggle with which way I want to take the story, and those can get aggravating. But it passes, and something comes.”

Of the 140,000 or so words he puts together in about six months of writing, Sparks culls about 80,000 for a book.

Still, writing doesn’t come that easily for him, says his literary agent, Theresa Park…