Ask the Author: Kai Bird
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Kai Bird
Every night I decide what small anecdote or piece of the story I would find most interesting to write about the next morning. I get started by writing up that anecdote.
Kai Bird
My home office!
Kai Bird
Write 300 words everyday.
Kai Bird
It has been six months since The Good Spy was published and I still have not landed on a new project. I'm a little frustrated, but it is hard sometimes to find the right topic.
Kai Bird
I write for myself--meaning I write in order to learn for myself what happened in any particular story or life.
Kai Bird
Robert Ames happened to be my next door neighbor in Dhahran Saudi Arabia in 1962-65--when I was an adolescent. So I had memories of him and was always curious to learn more about how he died in Beirut in 1983.
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