5 Writing Tips from the Amazing Barbara Kingsolver

In this wonderful piece in Publishers Weekly, Barbara Kingsolver shares so much wisdom, including these gems:

"Writer’s block is another name for writer’s dread"

To write yourself into a book, you have to think of "pages negative-100 to zero—and you can’t skip them"

and

"Readers come to books for many reasons, but ultimately they’re looking for wisdom. That’s something writers can offer only after we’ve accrued it, like scar tissue, usually by surviving things we didn’t want to deal with—a process otherwise known as aging. This is fantastically good news! Twenty, thirty, or forty years after all the athletes, dancers, models and actors of our cohort have been put out to pasture, we can look forward to doing our greatest work."

It's well-worth reading in its entirety.

Illustrate and Write On,
Lee