Secrets of the Marmaduke Writing Factory Revealed!
In the new issue of Publishers Weekly, Warren Berger, Factory Worker and author of the forthcoming A More Beautiful Question (Bloomsbury, 3/14) reveals the secrets of our writing group’s productivity: sensory deprivation.
No, it’s true. Take a look at the photo to your left. That’s the Factory’s conference room, a stone-walled, windowless chamber with no guaranteed wifi and patchy cell-phone connectivity. If you’ve condemned yourself to spend hours a day in the cave–or in the admittedly more welcoming but no more distracting main room–you have no choice but to write.
And you know what? It works! As Warren points out, both he (with A More Beautiful Question) and Joe Wallace (with Invasive Species) did much of their most productive work on our new books in the cave. Meanwhile, the group also inspires Robert Sullivan (A Child’s Christmas in New England), gives Kate Buford (Jim Thorpe: Native American Hero) a refuge to work on her new projects, and provides a general sense of community to everyone in the group. We’re very lucky!
To read Warren’s take, click here or on the image below:
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