There are important and dangerous questions that a writer asks every day.
The first is the well-known question that starts every story, no matter who the writer, no matter what the genre. That is: What if…?
But after you’ve formulated the what if, you’re left with the bigger, more complicated question, the one that’s going to [...]
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The Writing Life
There are important and dangerous questions that a writer asks every day.
The first is the well-known question that starts every story, no matter who the writer, no matter what the genre. That is: What if…?
But after you’ve formulated the what if, you’re left with the bigger, more complicated question, the one that’s going to [...]
So, yesterday I just found out from The Editor that BITTER ANGELS has done well in its first month. Very well, in fact. I was, as you can imagine, thrilled to hear it. I was also relieved, because, well, you know, it might easily not have done well and that would have [...]
Read MoreSo, last week Joe Schreiber did this great post about the book he’d like to write, but is never going to. His is called The Survivors Club.
Mine is called Player.
It’s the story of a young black man in the Jim Crow south. He’s a talented musician and is starting to pick up good [...]
This is the part I hate.
I’ve just finished a project, it’s polished and as perfect as I can make it. I can read it over and say “Ooo, that’s good.” If I find a place that needs tweaking, I can fill in a paragraph, or even a page or whole scene at light [...]
I don’t. Really. I don’t believe there is a mental disorder that only strikes writers. As my friend the writer Steven Harper Piziks put it: dentists do not wake up in the morning, go into the office, stare at an open mouth and say “OMG, I can’t drill! I just…can’t…drill…” [...]
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