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Eric Lotke

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Eric Lotke has cooked in five-star restaurants and flushed every toilet in the Washington DC jail. He has filed headline public interest lawsuits and published headline research on crime, race and prisons. His most recent novel, Union Made, explores what union organizing means for the workplace, the economy and maybe even the organizer’s love life.




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Eric Lotke Hmmm. I don't really believe in writer's block. I think writer's block is simply not knowing what to say.

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Hmmm. I don't really believe in writer's block. I think writer's block is simply not knowing what to say.

Back when I was a writing tutor, students would complain of writer's block. I would ask, "What are you trying to say." They'd hum and haw until finally it became clear that they simply weren’t sure.

That was the first step towards resolution. I could ask more targeted questions about the subject, the underlying issue, what they found most interesting (or not), whatever. Soon enough we’d develop a thesis. Then they could take the lead in writing it down ….

So if you have writer’s block, maybe try stepping back. Ask: What am I trying to say? Am I uncertain of the next development of the plot? The setting where the scene takes place? How she responds to what he asks? Maybe the problem isn’t writing. Stop writing and work to figure that out. Once you have, you need only write it down ….
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This book is wonderful. It is set in South Africa shortly after the end of Apartheid, when the new government is taking shape. Nelson Mandela is mentioned rarely and only as a marker of time and place; the story isn’t about him or the great shapers o ...more
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“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
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