How’s the Writing Going, Cheryl Strayed?
“I love writing. I really do. Even though I often hate it at various points in the process. Learning to accept that has been so important to me.”
How’s the Writing Going, Mike Albo?
“It’s taken me fifty-three years to be able to understand how to say what I want, or say who I am, or say what I believe.”
What I Wish I Knew As a Younger Writer
For our Application Week series, Sari Botton on writing for trade publications and what advice she wished she had received.
How’s the Writing Going, Deesha Philyaw?
“For me, getting better as a writer is learning how to get to the essence of things and boil down all of that exposition and backstory.”
After Fifteen Years, I Stopped Panicking, Started Declawing, and Finally Published My Memoir
At last, I took my teachers’ and mentors’ advice, and scrutinized my own behavior more than anyone else’s.
How’s the Writing Going, Jen Doll?
“I think I’m trying to reconcile the need to write and have a deadline with the need to be a human? And right now, the human is winning.”
How’s the Writing Going, R. O. Kwon?
“I know that when I’m really writing, when I’m really, really lost in a sentence, I forget I have a body, I forget what time is. I forget to eat.”
How’s the Writing Going, Michael Seidlinger?
“I always battle with the realization that the stuff I write doesn’t need to exist, and I wonder how many people actually want to read the horror and speculative fiction that I write.”
The Summer I Became a Thief
Sometimes I thought of it as war reparations. On the outwardly civil but quietly vicious battlefield of my parents’ divorce, I had been the clear loser.