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Write about what you don’t know. If you are setting out to write a novel, you are in it for…
Research is like foraging; you enter a forest looking for one ingredient and end up with several you had no…
It’s not so much individual works of literature that transform, as Literature itself; the great smorgasbord of these vividly imagined…
The writers who first deeply influenced me were the Modernists; Woolf, Pound, Eliot, H.D. All working the edges of meaning,…
Those worlds saved me during the early, lonely days, and I decided back then that I wanted to create my…
One driver waits, as if for traffic lights to change. Behind the wheel, she meditates, believes the road will clear…
Gardener’s block? Let’s try that: “I simply can’t mow this lawn; I don’t know where to start! How do you…
The task of reading is to form an order from this confusion; to arrange these influences into a new beginning.…
Watching my writing buddies give and accept positive feedback with humility and a clear idea of their own writing, has…
I would take a leaf out of Achebe’s own classic novel Things Fall Apart, in which the final paragraph switches…
I learned to drive power boats for cruise ships in Antarctica to earn time to write… I had changed into…
Virginia used to impress and inspire me to write well; to choose every word for its power and beauty. Now…
