Writing Stories
Each episode of Writing Stories features an interview with a contemporary author about how her book went from an idea in her head to an object on a shelf. Join us on Writing Stories for honesty, struggle, and triumph, for writing community, publishing insight, and inspiration to persist in whatever difficult but meaningful journey you've chosen for yourself.
Writing Stories
Do what you have to do to get the work done — Cally Fiedorek tells the story of Atta Boy
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Brianna Avenia-Tapper
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Season 4
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Episode 56
Cally talks about:
Hardware and software in a story
A need to detox from the marketplace
Woeful inefficiency in the writing process
Zadie Smith and 'obsessive perspective disorder '
Furious throat-clearing
Pregnancy creating writing urgency
Keeping a manuscript under wraps and writing as solitary
The sense in which approval is contagious