"How Writers Create Their Fiction": Jess Walter

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 Jess Walter:

How He Writes: "My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out."

Writer's Block Remedies: "My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once."

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