Ask the Author: Stephen Snyder
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Stephen Snyder
Most people never have a chance to really express what they think and feel. You're the rare exception. Never take that for granted.
Stephen Snyder
Spend time on twitter. Twitter is great practice for choosing just the right word, and for expressing something without excess words.
Read good sports writing. English is a verb-rich language, and verbs are the heart of good English writing. Sports writers tend to be verb-masters.
Put your writing on Google Drive, so you can polish it while waiting in lines, etc. Just pull out your phone and start asking, "How can I make this better?"
Read books on writing dialogue. My favorite is "How to Write Dazzling Dialogue," by James Scott Bell.
Read good sports writing. English is a verb-rich language, and verbs are the heart of good English writing. Sports writers tend to be verb-masters.
Put your writing on Google Drive, so you can polish it while waiting in lines, etc. Just pull out your phone and start asking, "How can I make this better?"
Read books on writing dialogue. My favorite is "How to Write Dazzling Dialogue," by James Scott Bell.
Stephen Snyder
Currently I'm working to bring Love Worth Making to as wide an audience as possible. Next up is to get started on my next book -- which I can't tell you about yet.
Stephen Snyder
I just about always feel inspired to write. As a physician in full-time practice, the only question is usually when I can find unimpeded time to do it. We're Jewish sabbath observers, so usually I write on Saturday nights, and all day Sunday. Weekday writing time is a much-appreciated gift -- when that happens.
Stephen Snyder
I've been in practice as a sex and relationship therapist in Manhattan for the past 30 years. If you don't have at least one good book idea after all that time, then you haven't been paying attention!
I've also served for awhile on the Consumer Book Awards Committee for the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (most recently as its chairperson), during which time I got a chance to see up close what worked and didn't work in popular writing about sex. I felt there was a serious need for a consumer book about sex that wasn't boring, that talked about real feelings, and that didn't just address one particular social group.
Progressive sex books talked about vibrators and Queer Theory, conservative sex books talked about purity, and about abstinence before marriage. But no one seemed to be talking to the vast middle of the country -- who just want to have good sex in a committed relationship, usually marriage, and who don't particularly care about ideology, or about what anyone else is doing.
I've also served for awhile on the Consumer Book Awards Committee for the Society for Sex Therapy and Research (most recently as its chairperson), during which time I got a chance to see up close what worked and didn't work in popular writing about sex. I felt there was a serious need for a consumer book about sex that wasn't boring, that talked about real feelings, and that didn't just address one particular social group.
Progressive sex books talked about vibrators and Queer Theory, conservative sex books talked about purity, and about abstinence before marriage. But no one seemed to be talking to the vast middle of the country -- who just want to have good sex in a committed relationship, usually marriage, and who don't particularly care about ideology, or about what anyone else is doing.
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