Tom Swift Writer’s Notebook

One of my former teachers recently recalled a writerly remark she heard from a colleague: If you take three days off, you have to start over again. That’s about right. Flow is lost. Feels like you’re writing up hill. After a month of life transition, I am starting to roll the boulder again. A good conversation can make the rock lighter and I had one of those with fellow writer Thomas Maltman over the weekend. I had met him once before — what a great guy. This time Maltman appeared at RCB to promote the paperback release of The Night Birds, and during lulls we compared notes. He was kind enough to allow me throw questions at him left and right. There were more similarities than I expected. And I walked away fired up. By the way, if you haven’t yet read his book, I highly recommend it.

This post was added on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 by Tom Swift at 00:04 and is filed under Reading Material, Swift Boat.