Exclusive Interview: Jennifer Crystal Reveals the Shocking Inspiration Behind One Tick Stopped the Clock
MB: One of the things I appreciated in the book was the scene building you did. How did you know when, where, and how?
JC: Writing in grad school, you probably helped me with this too in the chapters we worked on. You encouraged me to include scenes and think about where to include and why. There were a lot of scenes I wrote in the beginning that didn’t make it into the book. I tell my students that is an important part of the process. I had to see what actually had to be used, what actually needed to be shown.
