Ask the Author: Mark Abley
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Mark Abley
Coffee and deadlines.
Mark Abley
The sense of having a voice and being able to use it responsibly in the world. So many people feel voiceless and therefore powerless.
Mark Abley
Read, read, read. You can't be a good writer unless you read excellent books by other authors. Read, and then trust your imagination.
Mark Abley
By coffee, by deadljnes, and sometimes by the nagging sense, "This is what I just have to do."
Mark Abley
Some poems and some editing. But a new project is beginning to take shape at the back of my mind.
Mark Abley
As I travelled overland across west and south Asia in 1978, I kept detailed journals. Eventually I realized that these 110 pages of single-spaced journals could form the basis of a book. "Strange Bewildering Time" is the result.
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