Ten Questions for Jeanna Kadlec
“The first draft is just telling the story to yourself.” —Jeanna Kadlec, author of Heretic
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“The first draft is just telling the story to yourself.” —Jeanna Kadlec, author of Heretic
“Fixed ideas are always problematic when it comes to writing fiction.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Signal Fires
“There’s space for your story.” —E. M. Tran, author of Daughters of the New Year
“I’m not a writer, I’m a receiver for something I don’t always understand.” —James Cagney, author of Martian: The Saint of Loneliness
“A terrible draft of a story is a gift, because now the real work can begin.” —Jonathan Escoffery, author of If I Survive You
“These characters have been in my head for so long that they seem more real to me than some people.” —Lauren Acampora, author of The Hundred Waters
“I needed to live all of the change and movement and multiplicity that the book wound up being about in order to write it.” —Caylin Capra-Thomas, author of Iguana Iguana
The author of Took House explores what happens when poets permit themselves to write about the same subject multiple times.
The author of Took House explores the importance of “strangeness” in poetry and offers a method for capturing this quality by combining two different draft poems.
“This book really fought me, or I fought it, for the first couple of years.” —Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die