One of my favorite pieces of writing advice comes from Ann Lamott in Bird by Bird. First drafts are incredibly hard to write and often lousy. She is more blunt: For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at […]
Why Write About World War I?
Inspiration comes when you least expect it. Seven years ago, when I decided to write a novel, I had no idea what it would be about. After a decade of wrestling with short stories, I finally realized that I prefer to read long fiction. So why struggle to write a form that doesn’t really engage […]