http://writersconfessions.com Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:31:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No boss, no punch clock, no office meetings, so just how do writers structure their days? length: 2 minutes 57 seconds featuring: Diane Setterfield, Ronan Bennett, Colson Whitehead, Laura Elise Taylor, Wayne Johnston, Carol Off and Sarah Waters http://writersconfessions.com/archives/163 Not since teenagers have a group of people spent so much time secluded in their rooms doing who-knows-what. length: 3 minutes 31 seconds featuring: Yasmin Crowther, Janet Fitch, Adam Gopnik, Colson Whitehead, Jane Hamilton, Tom McCarthy, Alan Lightman, Wayne Johnston, and David Adams Richards http://writersconfessions.com/archives/135 Just about every writer hits a point in their project where giving up and starting over on something new begins to look like an appealing option, and that's when a hard choice has to be made. length: 2 minutes 10 seconds featuring: Miriam Toews, Kristen den Hartog, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Kevin Patterson, Tim Bowling, ... http://writersconfessions.com/archives/131 Children become readers in part because of the great books being written for children, but it isn't easy writing great books. length: 2 minutes 29 seconds featuring: Joan Barfoot, Anita Desai, John Wilson, Clem Martini, and Kenneth Oppel http://writersconfessions.com/archives/126 If you had told your family at a young age that you wanted to be a writer for a living, what reaction could you have expected? Or, If you've already lived through this scenario, what do you wish the reaction had been instead? length: 2 minutes 57 seconds featuring: Anita Rau Badami, ... http://writersconfessions.com/archives/122 When you've taken your book as far as you can on your own it's time to get a little (or a lot of) help from your editor. length: 3 minutes 40 seconds featuring: Keith Maillard, Janet Fitch, Kate Grenville, Ami McKay, Kevin Patterson, Ronan Bennett, Andrew Taylor, Tom McCarthy, and Ania Szado http://writersconfessions.com/archives/118