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Lately I’ve been asking a lot of questions. No, I’m not experiencing existential angst—I’ve been conducting interviews for a couple of project. I am by no means a professional interviewer, but this isn’t my first experience, either, and I’ve learned a few things over the years that I thought I would share. The first thing to keep [...] As writers, we think and talk a lot about plot and characters, and how they form the structure of our stories. In the past, I’ve talked about trying to approach writing from different perspectives or a different kind of “lens.” Change the camera lens and the view of the world changes a bit. (I know, stand [...] If you’ve ever read an author’s blog for any length of time, or followed his or her Facebook feed, you will no doubt be familiar with the tradition of posting sporadic or daily word counts. It is, perhaps, the only metric that writers have available to measure our productivity. My favorite anecdote comes via Stephen King [...] In a recent BBC interview, Sir David Hare, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, playwright, and general curmudgeon, talked about writing –http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9568401.stm Brief and bitter-sweet in the clip, he talks about having to write, and writing being one of the most important things in life even as he acknowledges that he makes films not very many people see. No one can tell you when to start a short story. People can give you all kinds of advice about how to write one, but only you can decide when you are prepared to start. This is something I deal with all the time. I’ll have a window of opportunity where I can work on a short [...] I have become alarmed over my short period as a publisher by what seems to be a significant lack of concern on the part of my fellow authors toward their own work. Most of us are good at keeping backups of the work in progress, getting through the edits, and getting a book to print, [...] |
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