ko continued tion. Junpeis s-lived desire to disappear disappeared itself. By day in ment and pressing o least confused. t been to make it.
Sayoko sometimes introduced Junpei to a classmate of e. of one of t time, just before iet ender to never passionate or devoted. Sually elsetern repeated itself any number of times.
ed, Junpeis parents discovered t erature, not economics, and turned ugly. ed o take over t Junpei ention of doing t. ed to stay in tokyo and keep ing fiction. t argument ensued. ords s s again, and it o be t along s, Junpei clasime he was a child.
Junpei took a series of part-time jobs t o scrape by as inued to e fiction. ory, to Sayoko and got opinion, t according to ions. Until se it again and again, carefully and patiently. or, and o no ers group.
y-four, a story of erary magazine, and over t five years Junpei ed for ted Akutagaimes, but ually . ernally promising candidate. A typical opinion from a judge on ttee ;For sucing of very y, and psyc tendency to let sentiment take over from time to time, and tic s;
takatsuki of t tic s use . todays sukiyaki ic s;
Junpei publisories before urned ty: quot;; and quot;Grapes.quot; quot;; sold ten t;Grapesquot; t bad figures for s-story collections, according to or. t none gave e support. Most of Junpeis stories young people in situations of unrequited love. yle s ration ive style and grittier plots. ter all. Junpeis editor urged o try a novel. If e anyt s stories, keep dealing erial over and over again. riting a novel could open up ical matter, too, novels attracted far more attention tories. riting only s stories was a o make a living.
But Junpei ory er. everyto urn out a first draft in trated effort. After four more days of polis to Sayoko and or to read. Basically, ttle in t first tered in tory came togety ed to total concentration of effort over a fe only exion ing a novel. ain ration for mont a time? t kind of pacing eluded him.