John Witherow
I think the writer has to fill up before he or she can disgorge, so if I am stuck, I read background materials in the subject area. Most of my writing is non-fiction ( legal writing), so ordinarily for me this means reading court decisions and secondary sources like law review articles. For my novel, The Gap, I read lots of books about Vietnam and the War on Drugs, including great fiction writers like Tim O'Brien (e.g., The Things They Carried, Going After Cachiato, Lake of the Woods).
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