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I actually wrote a book about the time I gave my brother a pet alligator. But really, writing only requires taking a step to the side and looking at something from a slightly different angle. ”3 Sometimes, the story simply stems from an image that grows in Yep’s head. For example, Yep conceived the plot for Dragonwings after he imagined an airplane soaring over a hill. He soon started to weave a story around the image, placing a character like his father at the controls of the plane. In fact, when he sat down to write Dragonwings, he wrote the last chapter first.
Fu Manchu and his yellow hordes, Charlie Chan and his fortune-cookie wisdom, the laundryman and cooks of the movie and television Westerns, and the houseboys of various comedies present an image of Chinese not as they really are but as they exist in the mind of White America. 5 After the publication of Dragonwings, Yep and Ryder left Buffalo and returned to California, where they established a home in Pacific Grove, a community on the coast about 75 miles south of San Francisco. Meanwhile, Yep began to teach English at San Jose City College.
Indd 57 6/30/08 10:05:26 AM Yep, shown above, says he spends no less than six months doing research for each of his novels. The research and preparation he does for each book shows in the richness of detail he is able to impart through his writing. indd 58 6/30/08 10:06:43 AM 5 A Writer’s View of the World Whether Laurence Yep writes historical fiction like Hiroshima: A Novella or Dragon’s Gate, or science fiction stories like Sweetwater, he thoroughly researches the topics for his stories. In fact, Yep said he spends no less than six months in research on a book and sometimes much longer.