The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink.
Here’s what we talked about in this episode:
After a months’-long cliffhanger, we finally got to Emma’s story about how mentoring robotics crosses over into her storytelling. It’s not what you expect!
Bill has started writing as a result of our goading, after a lifetime of loving to read and on-an-off trying to do pen a decades-in-the-making masterpiece himself.
Talking Bill through some questions led to a riveting discussion about how all three of us write, from top to bottom …
Which in turn led to one of the cooler chats I’ve had about how we “discover” things while writing — through runaway dialogue and science for me.
We ended by discussing how writing a novel is like spinning plates. (Seriously, this is the best-fit metaphor I’ve come up with for it so far.)
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