Interview with Thaisa Frank - ON WRITING

Award-winning author, Thaisa Frank, talks about the craft of writing. The published novelist, short story author, and poet reveals her favorite writing exercises and discusses writing theory topics such as trusting your own voice as a writer, how to develop as a writer, and how to squeeze writing into a writer's busy schedule.

Ms. Frank will be teaching at the forthcoming Writing Pad Writers' retreat in Ojai, California this March.

This segment is part of the Writing Pad Series, "Writers on Writing," with Halie Rosenberg.

For more information on Thaisa or Writing Pad and its literary events, retreats, and classes, go to http://writingpad.com/.

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[arewrites]

FIrst comment: You have to write every day. It doesn't matter if you're a marathoner or sprinter. You can't get better at somethign you don't rehearse. Every master rehearses. The rest are amateurs.

Second: I challenge anyone to find someone who actually writes 250 pages a day, as Thaisa Frank suggests, let along scribbing them "before work."

And third, to the interviewer - try to let the subject speak. Don't say "uh,uh" all the way through. It's annoying to the audience.