56. The Best Questions I’ve Been Asked on Book Tour
Seven years ago this spring, I was in Brooklyn on book tour for my literary cookbook, Eat This Poem. I was there for a live radio spot and a bookstore event, and had time to find the cutest coffee shop where I parked myself for three hours to write the draft of my proposal for Wild Words, which came out a couple of years later.
When starting to work on episodes for this season of the podcast, I came across an old draft called “Notes from the Road.” This document was filled with questions I was asked at events—the kinds of questions that were so good I wanted to share them with everyone who wasn’t there in person.
Highlights
If you have 3 kids and 20 minutes of free time, what should you work on first?
How do you get back to writing if you haven’t done it in a while?
Does your writing process change with each book?
What’s the secret of balancing writing with everything else?
Have you ever been afraid of success?
When you do have a margin, how do you avoid just scrolling through Instagram?
How do you reconcile wanting to write for yourself, but also the desire to get affirmation for your work?
How do you be content with just being a writer, and not being the next Ann Patchett?
