How do outside forces influence or shape your writing? (for instance, your audience, editors, the market, things you read, etc.) What's the strangest or most interesting thing you've ever written about or researched for a writing project?
It's a little like having to do the dishes before I sit down to write. I'm unable to write what Anne Lamott calls a "shitty" first draft. Writer friends call it "filling the well," but the frog image is what keeps coming to me. I write like the wind when I'm really into something and believe in it, but I sit like a frog in mud when I can't think of anything to write. How would you describe your writing process? That is, how do you usually research, write, revise, edit? What routines help, and what challenges do you regularly face?įitful. A dear old friend of mine, who was a poet and children's book writer, had to nudge me through it all the way. It was the most difficult thing I've ever tried, and the most rewarding. How could the great American novel (ahem) end up in the young adult market? What are the things you're most proud of having written, from any time in your life?Ī novel called Defiance about a twelve-year-old boy with cancer.
It was a stroke of luck for me, though I was a bit put out at first. I "simply" wrote a thinly-disguised novel about a year in my life as a teen and found an agent who placed it in the young adult market.
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