“How Writers Create Their Fiction”: Kaui Hart Hemmings

I uncovered this month-long NPR series “How Writers Create Their Fiction”, originally run in November 2006. I found many of the ideas presented by the various writers to be informative and inspirational, so we’ll be featuring one writer from the series per day during February.
 
 Today’s writer is Kaui Hart Hemmings:

How She Writes: “Two days a week I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer’s collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 p.m. Sometimes I’ll have lunch in the conference room with all the other writers and we’ll talk about our work or about things completely unrelated. These two days I usually go over things I have written, adding on and revising.

The other three days of the week, I’m with my 2-year-old and I make myself write three new pages while she naps.”

Writer’s Block Remedies “I find inspiration in the usual places (by reading other writers’ work) and unusual places (watching Sweet Sixteen on MTV.) I also know that sometimes I just need a break. I try to think of it not as writer’s block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.”

Come back tomorrow at 9AM PST for more writing wisdom.