My second book, Goulash, took much longer and was written in a variety of dwellings.Ī long narrative in 3rd person. I’m amazed that book got written, let alone quickly and easily, but the truth is that shooting pool alone is pretty boring. I could watch cows out the window, take a few shots on the pool table, and then go write a paragraph or smoke a cigarette or both. My first book, Snapper, was written in a garage with a pool table in the southern English countryside. I had to grow up to learn that character and feelings are important too. I’ve been accused of writing with a pointillistic style, whatever that means - I think it comes from revering the compression and economy of the short story above all else. Peter Taylor, Katherine Anne Porter, and Frank O’Connor. Name your writing influences (writers, books, teachers, etc.).Ĭarolyn Baugh, neighbor girl and author above. Becoming such myself was probably crucial to developing a penchant for writing later. But she’s 6 months older.Īlso, everybody in my orbit as a child was a voracious reader. She’s had 3 novels published now, and I’m on 2. If she wrote a poem about a chain link fence I had to write one too when she wrote a gruesome medical scene I had to follow suit. Partly through a literary arms race with the neighbor girl.
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