For me, writing is musical. It’s also a quest for precision. How do I channel these images and feelings in my mind and heart into words on the page? Metaphor is, of course, one way to get there, through the back door of memory. Emotional...
For anything I’ve ever written, be it fiction or non-fiction, my favorite research is always sifting through primary sources. There is something about reading materials that are unfiltered by someone else’s editorial judgment, in...
You can travel the world on the internet, but you can only go so far. About nine months into writing the first draft of my WWI novel, including a 20,000-word false start, I realized that I needed to see and feel the landscapes that existed only...
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