“How Writers Create Their Fiction”: Ken Kalfus

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 Ken Kalfus:

Ken Kalfus’ most recent novel is A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, a finalist for the National Book Award. The author of two earlier collections of stories and another novel, he lives in Philadelphia.

How he writes: “I don’t have a regimen per se, except that I try to write as much as I can. Usually this means getting to work every morning after my family leaves the house and more or less stopping when they return. The one strict, perhaps shamanistic ritual I perform before engaging with my muse is to crawl beneath my desk and disconnect my DSL.”

Fights Writer’s Block:”By not even thinking about it. I’m sorry, what was the question?”

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

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