Leavitt | Leavitt
Jan.07.2010
In my household, we always say that my husband, a nonfiction writer tells the truth, and that I get to make things up for a living. Or maybe I get to tell the deeper truths. Whatever way you want to think about it, for me, writing is all about creating new worlds, and making them so real...
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Dec.19.2009
Writing a new novel is an often hallucinatory process. It always starts out, for me, anyway, with a bang. I have an obsession, an image in my head of something pulling me forward. The first chapter nearly always writes itself, and it's a good thing, too, because the rest of the chapters are...
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Apr.13.2009
I've always been obsessed with one novel at a time, but now, I am writing two, and I can't tell if it is folly or just my process. I feel jet-lagged between two story worlds, never sure where I am or who I am with, and the sense of discombobulation makes me more than a tad anxious. Sometimes I...
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