Tags: writing process

The author of This Is One Way to Dance shares how notes—footnotes, codas, prologues, corrections—figure into her writing process. 

“Write what you do not know, which I think is particularly helpful because—not to sound too much like Socrates—I’m not really convinced that anyone knows anything.” —John Elizabeth Stintzi, author of Vanishing Monuments

The author of The Prettiest Star shares strategies and questions that help him get to know his characters. 

“There was nothing hard about writing it, it was more like finally giving in to some terrible force.” —Rufi Thorpe, author of The Knockout Queen