that keeps me up at night
10th July 2016 | for Creatives | creative process, artist integrity, creative fear, writing, reaching your audience, Ann Hood |
"I say this with great honesty: I always approach a book by writing about the thing that keeps me up at night. What is really waking me up or keeping me from falling asleep? What am I grappling with? And then I think, I cannot be the only one on this planet thinking about this right now. I can't be the only one worried about this. I start with whatever that experience is, and I just keep peeling it until it's more of the raw experience, and that's where I think fiction steps in."
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