🎧 56. The Best Questions I've Been Asked on Book Tour
Unsurprisingly, many of these questions from 5+ years ago are still relevant today.
Seven years ago this spring, I went to Brooklyn on book tour for my literary cookbook, EAT THIS POEM. I was there for a live radio spot and a bookstore event, and while I was in town, I found the cutest coffee shop and parked myself at a table for three hours to write the draft of my proposal for WILD WORDS, which came out a couple of years later.
When starting to work on episodes for this season of the podcast, I came across an old draft called “Notes from the Road.” This document was filled with questions I was asked at events—the kinds of questions that were so good I wanted to share them with everyone who wasn’t there in person.
Questions We Cover:
If you have 3 kids and 20 minutes of free time, what should you work on first?
How do you get back to writing if you haven’t done it in a while?
Does your writing process change with each book?
What’s the secret of balancing writing with everything else?
Have you ever been afraid of success?
When you do have a margin, how do you avoid just scrolling through Instagram?
How do you reconcile wanting to write for yourself, but also the desire to get affirmation for your work?
How do you be content with just being a writer, and not being the next Ann Patchett?
Over to you
I might not be on book tour at the moment, but I still love chatting about the writer’s life. Feel free to add a question below!
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