“Unlocking the Mind of a Storyteller: How Blake Crouch Transforms Dark Obsessions into Thrilling Narratives”
Blake Crouch Starts with a Topic
For Crouch, everything starts with a topic.
“It starts with a topic I want to dive into. … [For Dark Matter] I wanted to write and investigate quantum mechanics. And the book after that I knew I wanted to write about memory,” he says
Crouch, like Stephen King in his book On Writing, believes that stories are already within us. So when once you’ve gone through the research phase and gotten all of the information you could possibly need (and, to be honest, most things you won’t need) it’s time to stop digging into a topic and start digging within yourself.
