There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence.
Most of the things I write, I write on spec. And because I write them on spec, there's less interference. Because there's less interference, they tend to be better.
Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.
As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.
I am the freest author in the world.
I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.
