“I did bring him some of my writing and he wrote me back and said, you dialogue crackles, which I always remembered. But, and this is so funny to think back on, you need more experience. You need to have more experiences. Uh, I think about that now. And he was...
“Yeah, I think stick to your true voice. Right? I see a lot of people trying to be. I mean, I love George R.R. martin as a writer, but even it’s a little bit too much on the nose to be, you know, JRR Tolkien. There’s a lot of writers who want to be...
“Someone once gave me this advice and they said, if you’re a writer, you write. Now what that means is that you don’t write because you have this ideal that you’re going to write the great American novel. Uh, just go ahead and write because you...
My guest today, British author and pop culture historian Jon Kremer is appearing on StoryBeat for the second time. He’s best known for his memoirs and books detailing the 1960s pop and rock music scene. A long-standing friendship with “Year of the Cat”...
“To the aspiring writer who has always wanted to give it a try. I would just strongly encourage you to try it. Right. It’s going to be difficult writing that first chapter. That first paragraph is incredibly difficult. But I think you will find that if you...
