Chapter 23 - Writer’s Notebook: Advice from a Drunk Writer
A drunk writer gave me some writing advice after breaking into his own car and talking about John Fante.
A drunk writer gave me some writing advice after breaking into his own car and talking about John Fante.
He said forget about writing a novel.
Write scenes and stitch them together.
Experiment with scenes and characters — like you’re auditioning them.
You may end up producing something like a novel.
But on a day-to-day basis he said his writing consists of doing nothing more than those little bits and pieces.
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