Greetings Cosmic Americans!
This may be one of my favorite Youtube videos. James McPherson - talking about his writing habits. I can't imagine what it must be like to write out entire books in longhand and then type them on an old (once state of the art, to be sure) Olympia typewriter, But hey - whatever works...right?
My Civil War enthusiast readers should definitely enjoy this - but any author will benefit from McPherson's words. I would pay particular attention to what he says about introductions. Words to live by :)
Peace,
Keith
Keith:
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff. And I agree--it was great to hear his thoughts on the importance of intros / openers.
Terry
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