Ask the Author: Judith Warner
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Judith Warner
I would travel to the world of Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar, because that was more or less the world of my parents. And once I was there, I would go try to find my parents as they were in 1955, before they met. I've always wanted, for that matter, to be able to travel back in time to see my parents and their world at various points in time. I was born in 1965, and everything prior to about 1974 seems to me like ancient history -- I wonder if everyone feels that way about what preceded them, or preceded their conscious awareness of the world around them ...
Judith Warner
There's writer's block and Writer's Block -- i.e. the writer's block that everyone has temporarily and something darker and more desperate. For the former, I take walks. Like many people, I find thoughts have a way of sorting themselves out in the shower. I try to identify a person or people who are exceptionally good at helping me think something through in a productive way. For the latter: Luvox.
Judith Warner
Constantly having the opportunity to learn new things.
Judith Warner
Don't listen to people who tell you it's impossible to do what you want to do. Get concrete information from writers you admire who are as close in age to you as possible (because the industry has been changing so rapidly), find out how they do it, and adapt what you hear to your own situation.
Judith Warner
A paper on redefining "electability" post-2016, and a new book proposal!
Judith Warner
I get mad about something, or mystified by something, and I think, "Does it HAVE to be this way?"
Judith Warner
The idea for And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School (pub date May 2020; available for pre-sale now!) came to me as a passing thought when my daughter was navigating the troubled waters of seventh grade. I was suffering, and while I knew rationally that the parents around me were suffering too as they witnessed their own kids' age-appropriate distress, going through the experience with those moms and dads felt -- and often looked -- like middle school all over again. I thought: "Who are the seventh graders walking around inside us?" And it all followed from there.
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