Join me on Thursday, January 15, at 6 pm at the Fayetteville Public Library for an evening of conversation and entertainment.
This will be a bit different from my previous outings at Pearl’s Books, the West Fork Public Library, the NWA Book Fest, and so on. This time, I won’t just be talking about my latest book (although there’ll be some of that), but I’ll be going into the whole process of creating a work of fiction from nothing but a truckload of words and the desire to tell a story. I’ll draw on my own experience while also bringing in observations and advice from great writers and artists.
We’ll go through several questions together. For instance:
- Why write novels when the whole damn world is on fire?
- Why should anybody listen to anything I’ve got to say about writing?
- Where does your novel start? Where does it end?
- How does a story get from “Once upon a time…” all the way to “…and they lived happily ever after,” without ending up in a ditch somewhere?
- Are there any rules for writing a book, and if so, what are they, and who got to make them up?
- Is it crazy to start writing when your life is already half over?