Monthly Archives: August 2011

Yesterday I did something stupid. During the day, I’d worked on my novel for about two hours. Not a huge amount of work was done, but I made a fair amount of changes and revisions, which I felt halfway OK … Continue reading →

Find out here (it’s a new story of mine that’s in A-Minor Magazine, and it’s one of those he/she stories that I seem to be so fond of).

“I was a semiconscious writer in the beginning. Just sat and wrote something, or read the newspaper, or went to the movies. Over time I began to understand, one, that I was lucky to be doing this work, and, two, … Continue reading →

From an article about New Yorker editor David Remnick (by Nicholson Baker): “Remnick is modest about these writing successes, which he attributes chiefly to ‘sitzfleisch’ – the capacity to sit in a chair until the work is done. ‘A lot … Continue reading →