This Book Encouraged Me to Talk to People Despite Being a Grumpy Recluse

How William Gallagher’s ‘The Blank Screen: Interviewing for Authors and Writers’ improved my interviews and helped me to better connect with fellow creatives

William Gallagher | Image courtesy of 58keys

William Gallagher has a messy desk.

Papers, computer cables, abandoned cups of tea. A Stream Deck sat in front of an Ultrawide Monitor. His office looks like a bomb hit it — a bomb made out of words. Once the bookshelves collapsed and he couldn’t open the door because of all the books.

William Gallagher is a professional writer. This is what I’m saying.

I’ve been watching a lot of writers on YouTube lately instead of writing. That’s how I first stumbled across his YouTube channel 58keys. He talks about writing using Macs and other Apple devices, the latest apps, and other shiny things.

YouTube is full of people who talk about writing as marketing. It’s rare to find a writer on there who gets any real writing done. Mr Gallagher is one such exception. A unicorn in a field full of horses, posing as unicorns, with Cornettos stuck on their heads.

My kind of writer. A writer’s writer. You know the type who actually writes for a living? One of those.

He …