How To Finish
Three ways of thinking that might help you get the damned novel done, from our beloved 12-Month Novel Generator instructor, Lynn Steger Strong (author of HOLD STILL)
Three ways of thinking that might help you get the damned novel done, from our beloved 12-Month Novel Generator instructor, Lynn Steger Strong (author of HOLD STILL)
When you give birth to a life, you are also giving birth to a death.
Fitzgerald was ground down, I imagine, consumed by how to take care of her family. This didn’t make her any less the thinker, writer, reader, that she was.
I was embarrassed each time I got out my camera.
I want to write about space and time, and feeling like somehow we’ve always had less of it than our male counterparts.
In fiction, one needs motivations, wants, and fears; one needs cause and effect. In life, it’s messier.
On Virginia Woolf, making hats, escapism, and how to write a novel that readers will read.