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How did it happen that it’s not enough to tell wonderful stories, or write amazing poems, but that we have…
I have discovered I can write a disgustingly grisly murder. I don’t know why. I haven’t had a violent past.…
Agatha Christie, for example, was so shy she would retreat from a party even as she stood at the door.…
The copy editor doesn’t like your style, and has changed it to one they do like. Some of your jokes…
My dream of the countryside was, as I’m sure you’ve guessed, to lead to a rude awakening. The farms were…
Within six months of my arrival in San Francisco, I was married to a gay man who I would later…
Making time for the writing seems to have a magical effect, generating more time, somehow. It is self-renewing. Making time…
It is certainly possible that the ability to correct our work so easily has made us lazier, as well as…
Writers use people’s experiences as their raw materials; distorting, or otherwise exaggerating them. But for a reason. Writers use people’s…
I’m lucky enough to have a core group of fellow writers with whom I regularly swap drafts of work. It’s…
Didn’t Shakespeare combine the quotidian with the supernatural, the mythical with the philosophical, all the time? Didn’t Shakespeare combine the…
In my dreams, my home is a clinically efficient office space, where I clock in to my desk at nine,…
