November 3, 2010
Paper Fort has a great and often funny interview with Eugene author Peter Brown Hoffmeister about his writing process and the path to publication for his forthcoming memoir, The End of Boys, which comes out from Soft Skull this spring. He describes the genesis of the book, tantalizingly, as: “I had this real, true, dark story in my past, a story of three years that nobody in my family wanted to relive.”
We also like what he has to say about good writing, calling it “a subversive act, counter-culture, and perhaps insane.”
His writing advice? “Take too much time. Revise repeatedly. ‘Perfect’ is a verb. An action.”
— posted by
Jamie
