What do you create? I write poems: individual poems; poem sequences; series of poems gathered together by theme or form. I started writing (very bad) poems when I was 16 and persisted in the delusion that I could write well until I actually began to write well. I’d say my first really fine poem didn’t come until I was about 26 years old. The next one might have come when I was 30. There were very few successes and a lot of failures. I remember writing a sonnet everyday for several years and getting about three decent poems out of that. Regardless of the high-rate of failure, writing poems … [Read more...]
3Ws – Elizabeth Rosner
What do you create? I say this with sincere humility: I aim to create beauty and truth. Which is to say, stories of tragedy and hope, loss and redemption; images of the infinite human longing to connect; silences to acknowledge what cannot be named. My prose and my poetry are sometimes indistinguishable from one another, and in my view that's a good thing. Why do you create? To quote myself (from a poem called "What Matters" from GRAVITY): I wanted to make something out of nothing, out of air, words. The simple truth is that I've always felt compelled to express myself … [Read more...]
3Ws – J. Robert Lennon
What do you create? Primarily novels, but also short stories, book reviews, music, and sometimes photographs. I enjoy making neat piles of things, or visually striking arrangements of similar items, like pens, books, eyeglasses, guitars, shirts, shoes, LPs, and packages of food. I like making amusing signs for my office door. Also classroom handouts. Websites. Jokes. Why do you create? It’s the most fun thing to do, and the thing that makes me most feel like a real person. I don’t have any illusions about my work lasting beyond my own lifetime, or even very long … [Read more...]
3Ws – Greer Macallister
What do you create? Words, words, words. Mostly fiction these days, with a smattering of poetry and playwriting here and there. My first novel, The Magician’s Lie, is coming out in January 2015. Which seems either years away or basically tomorrow, depending on the mood you catch me in. The Magician’s Lie is historical fiction, set in 1905, about a female magician whose most famous illusion involves cutting a man in half – a dangerous notion for the time, and one that gets her in hot water when a dead body is found under the stage after her show. Historical fiction is my focus these … [Read more...]
3Ws – Stacey Ballis
What do you create? I'm primarily a novelist and sometime cookbook author. I write "foodie fiction," novels with foodie heroines and recipes in the back. My current novel, Out to Lunch, is about a woman who loses her best friend and gains custody of her best friend's annoying widower. My next novel, Recipe for Disaster, is about a house flipper whose life implodes leaving her jobless, homeless and fiancé-less in one horrible day, forcing her to fend for herself while living in the half-finished ruin of her current construction project. And my new digital cookbook is Big Delicious Life, … [Read more...]
3Ws – Renee Swindle
What do you create? I create novels. So far I’ve written Please Please Please, Shake Down The Stars, and A Pinch Of Ooh La La, which came out in August. I create quirky and humorous characters--characters with foibles, who usually get in the way of their own best interests. Sometimes my novels lean more on the humorous, like with A Pinch of Ooh La la and other times they’re closer to dramadies. Shake Down The Stars, for instance, dealt with a woman overcoming a major loss and alcoholism, but there was also humor throughout because I can’t seem to help myself. It was nice to hear … [Read more...]
3Ws – Ann Mah
What do you create? I write and I cook—both activities centered around food! I've written a food memoir called Mastering the Art of French Eating and a novel, Kitchen Chinese. Both books use food as a way to explore a new country. I also write food-centric travel articles and create recipes for my blog. Basically, my work is a giant excuse to travel around and eat. Why do you create? My husband is a diplomat and a month after we got married, we moved to Beijing, China. At first I was adrift—unemployed in a new place where I barely spoke the local language. But … [Read more...]
3Ws – Jen Lancaster
What do you create? Professionally, I create what I hope are light, engaging reads. I’ve written eight memoirs (despite having never pulled Chrysler out of bankruptcy) and three novels. Thus far, seven of my books have hit the New York Times Best Seller List, which still feels surreal, particularly given the content. For example, I wrote a weight loss memoir in which I didn’t actually lose any weight. (However, Such a Pretty Fat did teach me to conduct a domain lookup, as I discovered the original title Pretty Fat linked to a big girl fetish site.) Although I can’t imagine anyone … [Read more...]
3Ws – Cassandra Dunn
What do you create? I write novels and short stories, and occasionally blog posts, but those are a tad inconsistent these days. My debut novel, The Art of Adapting, came out this summer from Touchstone/Simon & Schuster. It's the story of a family in transition: Lana is recently separated and seeking a balance between caring for her family single-handedly and caring for herself. Lana's brother Matt, who has Asperger's Syndrome, moves in with Lana after he suffers an accidental overdose. Lana's children, Byron and Abby, are in the thick of their own teen dramas, reluctant to warm up to … [Read more...]
3Ws – Kevin Deiboldt
What do you create? Television shows. (Ugh, that always sounds odd to me. Because truthfully — I'm but a cog in the much larger, hulking machine of a television show. It's not as if a show bursts forth, fully formed from my forehead. I'm not Zeus. There are easily a few hundred other people that take whatever mediocre ideas we come up with and adjust/adapt/improve until they are so SO so much better. The beauty of collaboration! But the process usually starts with someone like me putting ink on paper. And while you probably didn't need most of this parenthetical babble, it fills up a … [Read more...]
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