Warren Adler's Blog, page 27
December 15, 2015
December 14, 2015
Ben Galley
I’ve always been a creative, ever since I could first hold a pencil and spell a word. I wrote my first books aged 11, and have not stopped writing ever since. I owe my love of writing to the fantastical books that fuelled the early warping of my imagination – Lord of The Rings, The Iliad and the Odyssey, Voyage of the Dawntreader. Writing is a release valve for the strange ideas that bubble up in my mind. It’s a way to let those strange stories breathe life and escape. I’m merely a conduit. If my stories bring a spark to somebody else’s day, then I’ve done them justice. There is nothing more rewarding for me than hearing how my readers have gotten lost in my worlds and characters. That’s what being an author, to me, is about.
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Wendy Brunner
It all began about 3200 BC. My ancient Sumerian ancestors followed their own urges and started to write things down. Now, over 5000 years later, I’m still at it. I guess you could say it’s in my DNA. I know some don’t have as many writing chromosomes as I do; they got the painting or the musical mitochondria, which I clearly lack. And, by the conscious effort of answering Mr. Adler’s website question, I realize that my writing is seldom a conscious effort—except of course when I need to pay the mortgage—but comes on through urges, in fits and starts. I have had moments when it flows smoothly, but am still in search of that project that “pours” out of me, as I’ve heard can happen. I am inspired in my writing by the ability to improve, to learn how to tweak the words just so and then feel that flutter in my middle when I read it back. Meanwhile I am happy enough when someone pays me to live the dream of a struggling writer.
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December 13, 2015
Karin Beery
I wrote my first novel after my husband was diagnosed with cancer. We’d barely started our life together when he was diagnosed nine months after our wedding. Emotional and confused, I started reading. That led to writing. That led to years of experimentation with different types of writing and editing.
I started writing as a means of escape. I continued writing as a means of exploration. I’m still writing because I love it. I spend my days composing business and promotional copy (an art form of its own). I dedicate my nights to writing and editing novels.
Writing is my job and my passion. My burden and my joy. Every day is a struggle – to want to sit at the keyboard another hour to write my novel, even though I’ve already spent the entire day composing – but the rewards are worth it. I can create, manipulate, and destroy with a push of a button. It’s empowering, yet terrifying.
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December 10, 2015
IndieReader Features “A Novelist’s Most Important Tool”
An idea storms your consciousness. You scramble to jot it down before it dissipates. What do you reach for? Do you type that brilliant line of dialogue on your phone or do you reach for your trusty notepad? If so, what kind of notebook is it? Are the pages lined or blank? Do you jot down the sentence with a pen or pencil?
Every writer knows the importance of a writing tool. It’s one step in the process of how our words see daylight. A trusted writing companion isn’t just someone who can read over a third or fourth draft. It’s your computer in the corner of your room, in your suitcase, or even in your windowless basement, if your writing space is anything like mine was decades ago. Your writing companions are the pen and paper whose ink flows in time to your words.
“How do you write, meaning pen, pencil, typewriter or computer?” is one of the top three questions I receive on a daily basis. It’s a question that gets on a very intimate level with a writer. What happens when it is just the writer alone with his or her work? What tools are used when honing one’s craft? Our imagination needs an outlet, which nowadays has technological guidance behind it… [Continue Reading on IndieReader]
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December 8, 2015
Exclusive Pfizer Interview with Warren Adler: “The War of the Roses Author Declares War on Ageism”
Warren Adler talks ageism and staying in the creative ballgame in an exclusive interview with Pfizer for their popular GET OLD campaign
At 87, the author of more than 50 novels, including the 1981 tumultous divorce classic, The War of the Roses(which he adapted into a screenplay of the same name, and the 1989 film starred Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito) remains a tenacious and relevant part of the creative world, and he’s tired of the dismissive look he gets when he shares his age.
“Too often, the elderly are looked at with a jaundiced eye as useless, like products whose shelf life is finished and by virtue of our age shunted off as people with nothing to offer,” says Adler. “We need to change the perception and revere the active and mentally competent old as contributors to the common good by virtue of their observations and insight acquired during a long residence on our planet.”
Today, Adler is as active in writing as he’s ever been. His next novel, Torture Man, comes out in November (and is also being adapted as a film), and his blog is testament to his prolific spirit. A number of his works are also being adapted for film and television, including The War of the Roses: The Children, the sequel to The War of the Roses; “Capitol Crimes,” a TV series based on the author’s Fiona Fitzgerald mystery novels; and a feature filmed based on Target Churchill, a World War II thriller by Adler and James Humes.
We talked to Adler about the joys and challenges of getting older, and what it takes to remain a powerful player in the creative game.
Get Old (GO): You mention that you consider lying about your age because, at 87, our cultural attitude relegates you to a category of irrelevancy. What would you like to say to people who feel that way?
Warren Adler (WA): Eventually, if they are lucky, they will arrive at my age with all their faculties. There are 6 million people over 85 in the US, close to half will have cognitive problems. Thus, three million odd of us represent vast experience and above all, wisdom.
We survivors must persuade younger people that our wisdom and experience is to be treasured not rejected. We should be consulted, sought out, listened to.
We have been there, done that, and seen that. We are a living, breathing source of historical truth and our experience and wisdom should be used by the young as a source to help navigate the shoals to be met on life’s journey, most of which have a tendency to repeat and, in some cases, multiply.
GO: You have 50-plus published novels, along with plays, poems and essays, and more than a hundred short stories. In what ways has growing older influenced your creative process and your writing style?
WA: Above all, it has made me appreciate time and the manner of its expenditure.
I have always been time bound, understanding its precious value and limitations. At the same time, I understand that certain things actually improve with time—fine wine, for example—and believe from my own experience that brain cells might have a tendency to rejuvenate by some mysterious process not yet discovered. Our brains are not like socks. One size does not fit all.
There are moments in my work when I actually feel like I am living in an aging cask and getting a better and deeper understanding of my calling as a writer. As I grow older, I find I look at my writing with more of a sense of its artistry and mission than I might have in my younger self.
I now truly believe that my work is more important than I ever realized and I create my stories, characters and plots with that in mind. I am also aware that I may be chasing rainbows, and, I confess, I enjoy the fantasy of writing to keep my authorial name alive as long as possible.
Above all, I am both elated and amazed at the endurance of my creativity and the power of my memory and will go on as long as it is physically possible. I make every effort through exercise and diet to slow up the inevitable deterioration of my body, which might be postponed but never avoided.
As a writer of stories, I do appreciate the meaning of a beginning, middle and an end and I know that every plot leads, as in life, to a denouement. Essentially, living is a story and we are all deeply concerned and consumed with “what happens next.” The business of living is strewn with cliffhangers and suspense. Stories are the way that the creative artist explores this phenomenon and engages a reading audience with infinite possibilities, insights and outcomes…
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December 7, 2015
David Faux
I didn’t know how to socialize well. It was just easier to create worlds of my own where I was cool and heroic. Before I could even write well I was making up stories with my toy cars. Back then there were no toy spaceships so I used hairbrushes, building blocks, and my harmonica. At night I told myself stories in bed. With no props, my imagination grew.
Later in childhood, I sat at my desk with a pen and notebook. The story I’d made up the night before was so entertaining that I wanted to write it down. After 9 handwritten pages I had my first real story. I drew pictures for it and showed it to anyone who would look at it. I’d become a writer.
So while the cool kids did whatever they did, I sat at my desk and wrote more. They may have been cool, but I was a writer. In high school, a friend gave me an idea which I turned into a 96-handwritten-page story with 2 drafts.
For me, writing is more than an escape. It defines me. I’ve made some bad choices in life and living with them has put me in occasional hard times. But I can work my custodial job with the joy of my writing churning in my head.
I now have the 6th draft of a novel and I’m ready to query. Published or not, writing it was what makes me who I am.
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Allison Merrill
Growing up in the 1920s in a Taiwanese farming village, Grandma was destined to work in the rice fields for life.
When I was four and started to learn Chinese phonetic symbols, Grandma asked me to tutor her.
I taught her everything I knew. After a hard day’s work, she slouched over her antique Singer treadle sewing machine and scrawled Chinese characters across rows of squares she’d drawn on the back of old wall calendar pages. Year after year, I watched her struggle to remember correct strokes of the Chinese characters I’d taught her before. But she kept trying.
My parents divorced when I was 14. A restraining order separated Grandma and me. The last time I went to Grandma’s house, she was still slouching over her sewing machine, battling a mountain of homework. Sitting next to her was my four-year-old cousin, singing and playing with an action figure and tutoring Grandma the very same thing I’d taught her a decade prior.
By the end of the day when I was leaving, Grandma repeated begged, “Don’t forget about me. Don’t forget about me.”
I see now that for her entire life Grandma tried to tell her story. She tried to become literate, hoping to live beyond death through written words.
I have the same wish for myself.
I write, because written words have that magical power of immortalizing people. They freeze time and space, so I can still hear and smile at Ah-Po’s stories today, long after our last good-bye.
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December 2, 2015
Kate Silver
When I was growing up, reading gave me access to faraway worlds, intriguing characters and suspenseful plots.
Today, writing does.
As a journalist, I’ve peered into subcultures, met brilliant minds and collected casts of characters that could fill volumes.
I’ve learned about the strange world of worm farm schemes; met with a hit man hired to wreak havoc on a Las Vegas wedding chapel; told the story of a veteran’s salvation delivered in the form of a black Labrador retriever that was raised in a prison; wandered the streets of a town run by the The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; spent a year embedded as an independent beauty consultant in Mary Kay Cosmetics and the list goes on.
Being a writer allows me to connect in a deep and meaningful way, asking questions that get to the heart of who a person is and why they do what they do. Every person has a story. I love being the one that gets to hear—and share—those stories.
Kate Silver is a freelance journalist based in Chicago. She writes for the Washington Post, Midwest Living, Southwest: The Magazine, Men’s Health and other publications and creates content for corporate clients including Pfizer, GM, American Express and others. Silver is the author of the 2015 Frommer’s Easy Guide to Chicago.
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