Back in the real world, I'm fishing around for something to write. I need to write a short story about a dog for an anthology of dog stories that Holt will release in Fall 2011, but all the dog stories from my childhood are tragic, or at best tragi-comic, which I like but kids 8-10 would not like at all. Aren't all dog stories ultimately sad? Marley and Me, Old Yeller. . .
“Hold on to the heart of what first makes you want to tell a story—that seed of inspiration, that character that haunts you, the moments you long to crystallize and bring to life. My goal is to couple that holding on with a practice of staying loose and softened and humble—remembering that the task is about questions, not answers.”
Is a writer someone who does not write every day? Or even every week? (GASP) Then I am not a writer. A "spurt writer", I call myself. I write when the mood strikes or an idea keeps biting my ankle and won't let go, or sometimes when I'm just plain ashamed of myself for being so lazy. Despite all this I've somehow managed to write a dozen MG and YA novels (thirteen counting my adult novel, Call It A Gift.) Spurt writers can blitz when they want to, or need to--meeting a deadline for revision, for example. I love writing. I'm never more alive than when I'm caught up in a character's life, going places I haven't been or didn't know I was going. I've just finished The Last Best Days Of Summer which will debut in the Spring of 2010, another Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus & Giroux book. Frances has been my editor since 1998 and I hope she always will be. She's simply amazing.
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Back in the real world, I'm fishing around for something to write. I need to write a short story about a dog for an anthology of dog stories that Holt will release in Fall 2011, but all the dog stories from my childhood are tragic, or at best tragi-comic, which I like but kids 8-10 would not like at all. Aren't all dog stories ultimately sad? Marley and Me, Old Yeller. . .
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