“I’m writing the novel again. I didn’t hurt my head.” In 2013, novelist Hwang Si-un (50), who returned from two years in the hospital, posted this on social media. This was after an accident in 2011 left him paralyzed from the waist down. I wanted to let the world know that even though my body had changed, I could still write novels. And that promise was kept with the new full-length novel ‘Bright Darkness’ (Madibook, photo), published for the first time in 15 years on the 29th of last month. Author Hwang, whom I met at his home in Gunpo-si, Gyeonggi-do on the 7th, writes while lying down. This is because it is difficult to sit for a long time. Since I can't type on the keyboard while lying down, I write on a tablet PC with a pen. The handwritten manuscript is transferred to the computer the next day and organized into a PDF file. Because I worked while lying on my left side for a long time, the skin on one side of my body turned black. However, writer Hwang laughed and said, “It’s a slow method, but it’s the method I’m most familiar with.” Writer Hwang, who debuted in 2007, received attention in 2011 when he won the Changbi Full-length Novel Award for his novel ‘Come Back Home.’ However, in the same year, Gangwon-won