http://resources.library.yale.edu:2007/u?/yale-ydn,12963[permanent dead link] Yale Daily News Book Supplement April 30, 1979 page 7: Students plunge into writing careers ...For several Yale undergraduates, the imaginative impulse has been strong enough to yield written results. Both Gollin and Junior Anthony Weller produced two novels during their first two years at Yale....Real-life people and familiar scenes provide the basis for Weller's novels. He concentrates on telling the story and lets meanings work their way in surreptitiously. The writer's most difficult task is to be true to his characters, Weller believes. "A writer must think out vivid characters; he must know what they will say and how they will act. For example, a girl from Long Island would comment 'I feel a little nauseous' not just 'I feel nauseous.'" Weller plans his characters' actions like chess moves that have many repercussions. "The action keeps readers interested. They want to find out what events, cause changes in attitudes, rather than the thoughts of a character." Writing his second novel, he encounters a dangerous urge to make it too complicated, too literary. He has spent two and a half years writing and revising his book about a college student who begins to face responsibilities involving other people, and must ponder what relation women will have to his life. Weller has already begun work on a third novel that's "less quiet" than the other two; it concerns a man whose best friend attempts to murder him. ... None of these students currently take any English or creative writing courses at Yale. ... Weller explains that he would not take a creative writing course because "there's a point when you have the urge to develop on your own -- without interference."
