In life, we are destined, it seems, to repeat certain experiences until the meaning or lesson of the experience is conscious. Since the writing life is not separate from life-life, can you share how you’ve moved through a certain block that had always influenced (hampered) your writing process? How did you enter, tolerate, remain with
The subject of this article, by Julie Bosman, in the New York Times: Writer’s Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year Is Slacking made me itchy and anxious—particularly this quote: “Everybody’s doing a little more,” said Mr. [Lee] Child (a British author), who is published by Delacorte Press, part of Random House. “It
“I’m a manipulative observer—a bit like Shakespeare’s Puck.” -James Gough JAMES GOUGH has been an actor and is an artist. In addition, his debut novel, CLOAK, was recently published by WiDō Publishing. ♦ MEREDITH: When you sit down to write, are you in charge? What I mean is this: are you the scribe or the master
The writer muses on finding opportunities when you’re stuck, the work it takes to move beyond inspiration and letting go at the right time. Barbara Bietz is an award-winning children’s author, magazine writer, book reviewer and chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee. Her YA novel, Like a Maccabee (Yaldah Publishing), was a Midwest
I’m listening to THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss. I. LOVE. IT. And so, I started wondering about the author’s process. I went to her website. There, under “Press,” she talks in part about just that, her writing process and her thought process about writing. Under the heading: “On Doubt,” which is a five-graph