Construct complex characters whose humanity has been fully developed. Learn about comparable titles in your particular genre. Read other books as a form of nourishment, study the industry.
Also, try to be generous, intrepid, and always take risks in your writing. Also, you can always find a publisher but you can't get back the years you weren't writing because of disappointment and heartache. What advice would you give other writers?ĭon’t look for shortcuts, don’t disappear when your writing friends need you, don’t ignore literary journals along the way, and don’t stop writing if you're having a hard time publishing your manuscripts because all of us have that.
And sometimes, I even pretend to chat with them in the shower. I might jot down something I imagine them saying when it comes to me. I imagine conversations they might have or should have. I think about my characters a lot like they're friends of mine. I'll know when they're ready.įor Fiction Writers: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters?Īll the time. For me, so much of writing is feeling, thinking, researching, flirting with ideas, and building new homes with language. I also give myself permission to not write. I give myself permission to revise, cut, and delete text whenever I’m not feeling creative or ready to write, which is still a form of writing no matter what people say. What authors do you read when you aren’t writing? I find inspiration in play, specifically the experimentation of form, genre, and voice, which is why I always work on multiple manuscripts at the same time so I’ll always have a bunch of projects I can jump into, which helps demystify the singular artifact. I find inspiration in love, imagination, counterfactual narratives, immigrant stories, cultural intersectionality, and the limitations of memory. Follow me on Twitter & IG: inspires you to write? I'm the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University and live in LA with my wife and our two fashionably dressed dogs. My writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Ploughshares, Guernica, Antioch Review, ZYZZYVA, and the Columbia Journal, among others. I'm the winner of the 2020 Noemi Book Award in Prose and the mixed-race/hapa author of Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments (Noemi Press, 2021), Amnesia of June Bugs (7.13 Books, 2022), Dream Pop Origami (Unsolicited Press, 2022), and the speculative hypertext, Dukkha, My Love (2017).
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