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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Hero to Zero

Ever find yourself comparing your work to the work of some master you’ve always admired? The worst possible time to do this (and therefore the time it’s likeliest to happen) is when you’re working on a first draft. The double-worst time is when those first draft pages are the middle pages of a novel, when [...]
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On Method

Sometimes people ask me how I write. My stock response is “ass in chair.” Phillip Roth said that the real reason writers want to know other writers’ methods is to find out whether they’re as crazy as they themselves are. I’ve always been curious for more pragmatic reasons. Here’s a piece of my method. Every [...]
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