The author of the wondrous Absurdistan, writes for Asylum about how to be a good novelist.
He offers some pretty solid tips...sort of...
Finding Inspiration
"I think all good books come from heartbreak. Focus on the worst thing that's happened to you -- usually it's interpersonal. Could be your parents drank themselves to death; an ostrich killed your baby brother. Or focus on the worst, horrible break-up. Go off from that. Feel something. It's very hard to feel something these days because we're living such electronic lives; everything's just some weird electronic echo. Try to access what human beings used to have -- emotions. Go from there."
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