Ask the Author: Matthew Robinson
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Matthew Robinson
I sit down to write a story only when the idea for it persists, until to not explore it becomes distracting. And engaging with good writers and good writing seems to increase the occurrence of persistent ideas.
Matthew Robinson
Keep writing. Find your writing community. Support other writers. Submit work often. Drink more water.
Matthew Robinson
Sometimes it isn't time to write. Sometimes it's time to get ready to write. It's time to read, to talk, to listen, to spend some time with the idea that might become the next thing to write. All of it is part of the process.
If I'm at the desk and the writing doesn't come, I pull something out of the draft pile and work on revision. I go to a reading. I go to workshop. I go to a bookstore. These things keep me close to the writing for the in-between times. And eventually, inevitably it again becomes time to write.
If I'm at the desk and the writing doesn't come, I pull something out of the draft pile and work on revision. I go to a reading. I go to workshop. I go to a bookstore. These things keep me close to the writing for the in-between times. And eventually, inevitably it again becomes time to write.
Matthew Robinson
The stories that make up The Horse Latitudes are explorations of the thoughts and feelings that linger from my own deployment. Taking a moment from memory and dismantling its realism, reforming it through fiction, and seeing what changes, what stays the same, what new thing I can still learn from it, provides a catharsis I have been seeking since I returned from Baghdad. And as I began sharing them with readers, the conversation grew deeper, required further exploration, until, in direct dialogue with the questions I was encountering from my family and friends, my side of the discussion became a book.
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