i was deep into writing by hand i decided i didnt want to change my lifestyle garcia marquez once remarked that switching to computers made him write faster perhaps but maybe i am conservative in my habitswhat is the idea behind your next novelwhen i was born istanbul was a city of one million now they say its 11 or 12 million a lot of immigration from poor anatolia happened from the late 50s early 60s till say 2005 i am writing a novel that is in a way chronicling that immense migration inside turkey the first shantytownsstreet vendors all the stuff of oldfashioned realistic novels with some surrealistic touch of fantasycan creative writing really be taughtits possible but not very efficiently perhaps there are authors like kazuo ishiguro flannery o conner who studied creative writing and became great writers we cant deny that something positive is happening there but not all the time too