The trouble with death cleaning is that it’s too much of a walk down memory lane. Those were the days, you think as you try to decide which clutter to toss. It’s difficult –especially when you come across your first forays into writing fiction.
As I blogged last week, delving into boxes full of old papers and documents produced a whole bunch of acceptance letters for “confessional” stories I’d written when I was living in the U.K.
Death Cleaning Discovery, Part 2
It also produced this 10th anniversary issue of Star magazine (below) from May 1984 — which took me right back to the days of writing fun fiction for that tabloid. Continue reading “Those Were The Days: Writing Fun Fiction For The Star”
Two events last week led to this blog’s headline. The first was reading A Writer Prepares by Lawrence Block, the bestselling author of more than 50 mystery novels. This self-published memoir tells the story of his writing career up to the point where he published his first hardcover novel in 1966.