Ask the Author: Eddy Portnoy
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Eddy Portnoy
It was a series of fortunate accidents that is fully explained in the book's epilogue.
Eddy Portnoy
This is easy. I read, mostly old newspapers. The stories in them send my brain into spasms of delight. The prose in 100 year old newspapers is also often phenomenal.
Eddy Portnoy
I'm working on a way to figure out how to juggle my day job and still write at least a bit here and there.
Eddy Portnoy
Read a lot. Write a lot. If you're not having fun, take a break.
Eddy Portnoy
I've never really had writer's block. I suffer more from writer's diarrhea, which is a problem of a different sort.
Eddy Portnoy
The best thing about being a writer is being jarred back to reality by someone yelling in Yiddish outside my office door, thereby disturbing a dreamy mid-afternoon idyll during which I was pondering what it would be like if I could write all day if I didn't have a day job.
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