Ten Questions for Elizabeth Metzger
“Everything you are afraid of will be surpassed by desires you cannot yet imagine.” —Elizabeth Metzger, Lying In
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From the Magazine
How Do You Know When to Stop Revising?
The authors of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing engage in a dialogue about textual doneness.
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The Sentence and the Sentence Story
The author of The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story investigates the power of a single sentence, long or short.
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The Fullness of Omission
The author of The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story explores what is gained by cutting elements of a narrative.
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Ten Questions for Bisi Adjapon
“Sit with your characters and let them talk to you.” —Bisi Adjapon
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Openness to Influence
The author of The Boundaries of Their Dwelling argues that writers should be as open to influence during revision as they are at the beginning of a project.
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Ten Ways of Being in the Weeds With Your Novel, and Ten Ways Out
The author of The Boundaries of Their Dwelling counts the many ways a novelist may get lost, but ultimately find a way through, a book project.
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Ten Questions for Franny Choi
“The more you write, the more there will be to write about—so you’ve just gotta cut it off at some point!” —Franny Choi, author of The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
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Ten Questions for Jeanna Kadlec
“The first draft is just telling the story to yourself.” —Jeanna Kadlec, author of Heretic
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Ten Questions for Dani Shapiro
“Fixed ideas are always problematic when it comes to writing fiction.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Signal Fires
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