Pamela Rafael Berkman, Author

Pamela Rafael Berkman, author of Her Infinite Variety and The Falling Nun (both from Scribner). Pam's upcoming events and new flash fiction; bonus, online companion stories to her published collections; excerpts from new work; tips as they occur to her for new writers.

Wednesday, July 07, 2004

High on Nob Hill

Well! Blogging from the comfort of the spare futon of my writing pal Dorothy Hearst's (no relation to Patty, William Randolph, etc. unless she wants restaurant reservations) Nob Hill apartment, where I am staying for our self-made writer's retreat - which can be a really helpful thing if you can swing it and can find the right person. Sometimes being with someone else makes you sit and write, sometimes it makes you gossip about Viggo Mortenson. But if you find someone who makes you do the former, remember it, and hang out with them a lot.

I'm very excited because I've managed to complete two short stories in the last week, which is pretty unusual, even with my "the secret to writing is butt in chair" philosophy. They're surreal, almost fantasy; a Green Man encounter and a girl who works in a magic, and rather repressive, library. More on their progress as it comes. And of course almost every day I spend a little time on the Milky Way story, because hey, that's how you finish novels.

Everybody out there getting in their little bit if regular writing? Good. Keep it up.


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