The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The writer talks honestly and openly about the beauty of writing when the stakes are really high, writing big versus writing quietly, and the intense and focused work of promotion and publicity. ♦ Allison Winn Scotch is the author of The Department of Lost and Found, and the New York Times Bestseller, Time of My
The Recovering Creative
I have always been a writer (dictating stories to my mom before I could form the letters of the alphabet on my own), and I’ve never been ashamed of that.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
When you consciously think about being creative, making something, writing something, it’s scary, and it’s my personal theory that this is where writer’s block comes from: the fear.
Editors & Agents Interviews, The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
When I look up and find that I am giddy and self-conscious with delight at my own little participation in the project, and see, joyfully, that I have been tricked or seduced into this condition and eager, finally to see the writing succeed and scared that it won’t, well, that’s what has to happen.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview, The Recovering Creative
The more time I have the less writing I seem to get done.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The author and chef discusses how memory sparks creation, staying true to what she loves and the unexpected benefits of uncertainty.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
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The screenwriter, author and therapist talks about writing what you love, building a tolerance to rejection and inviting in the shadow side. ♦ Dennis Palumbo is the author of Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within—one of my absolute favorite books on writing (I have an autographed copy).
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The writer talks about trusting intuition, never trying to please the crowd and writing in rooms with beds in them. Lynn Isenberg is the author of the The Funeral Planner (Red Dress Ink Novels) which Booklist called “. . . a hilarious comedy of love and fulfillment in unexpected places.” She also wrote The Funeral
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The author contemplates chaos and rumination, and generously answers questions about process, fear and his truth on pushing forward versus hitting a stride.
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
“If you can learn not to take rejection personally—and hopefully to learn something about yourself or the piece of work in the process—it’s a boon.”
Editors & Agents Interviews
How do you know when a creative partnership is going to fly?
The 5-Question [Writer] Interview
The writer shares about finding her genre (rather, her genre finding her), no excuses and it being incomprehensible when people can’t write.