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Category Archives: The Writing Process

21 Sep
The Writing Process, Vermont

Win free advance copies of “The Sleepwalker”

Greetings! “The Sleepwalker” does not go on sale until January 10, 2017. Right now, however, thanks to Doubleday Books and Goodreads, you can...

06 Jan
Good Reads, The Writing Process

For the Love of Writing: The Journey from Process to Product

John Gardner was thrown from his motorcycle and died the year before his book, The Art of Fiction, was published in 1983. Consequently,...

21 Nov
The Writing Process

“The Guest Room” arrives in 45 days, but there is a Goodreads contest right now

Dear Friends who Read and Readers who are Friends, I haven’t posted here since I stopping penning Idyll Banter on a weekly basis....

06 Sep
The Writing Process, Vermont

Goodbye. Godspeed. Farewell. At least for now.

Vermont has never been spared the yin and yang of the world. We were certainly reminded this summer that we are not exempt...

| Tagged farewell
16 Aug
The Writing Process, Untold Stories, Vermont

A little too much like life: Aging and the approaching end to Idyll Banter

  In one of the last weeks of my father’s life — though we had no idea at the time that he would...

| Tagged aging, Bohjalian, Vermont
12 Jun
The Writing Process

The Writing Process That Led to ‘Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands’

I rarely have the slightest idea where my books are going. That’s not a confession, it’s simply a reality. I don’t work from...

| Tagged Bohjalian, books, novels, writing process, writing tips
09 Jun
The Writing Process, Vermont

After 821,000 words, it’s time to get up from the chair

Neil Gaiman says, “This is how you do it; you sit down at the keyboard and put one word after another until it’s...

| Tagged Bohjalian, Dorothy Parker, Idyll Banter, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King
22 May
The Writing Process

Conceiving the narrator of “Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands”

Some years ago – back in the Mesozoic era, if I’m not going to be coy—a review of my novel Midwives ended with...

| Tagged Bohjalian, narrator
17 May
The Writing Process

“Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands:” The inspiration behind the novel.

It’s one of those classic, absolutely reasonable questions—that is, alas, as impossible to answer briefly as the meaning of life. But I am...

| Tagged "Close Your Eyes, Bohjalian, Emily Dickinson, Hold Hands"
29 Mar
The Writing Process

Perchance to dream – and then to write

I’m writing a novel about sleep, and so lately I’ve been trying to understand my dreams. A novel about sleep may sound like...

| Tagged Bohjalian, dreams, fiction, lucid dreams, nightmares, novel, The Sandcastle Girls
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    • Books – 2022 ~ 2016
      • The Lioness 2022
      • Hour of the Witch
      • The Red Lotus
      • Wingspan – A Play by Chris Bohjalian
      • The Flight Attendant – Look for the beautiful new paperback, on sale now!
      • The Sleepwalker – 2017
      • The Guest Room – 2016
    • Books – 2014 ~ 2005
      • Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands – 2014
      • The Light in the Ruins – 2013
      • The Sandcastle Girls – 2012
      • The Night Strangers – 2011
      • Secrets of Eden – 2009
      • Skeletons at the Feast – 2008
      • The Double Bind – 2007
    • Books – 2004 ~ 1995
      • Before You Know Kindness – 2004
      • Idyll Banter – 2003
      • The Buffalo Soldier – 2002
      • Trans-Sister Radio – 2000
      • The Law of Similars – 1998
      • Midwives – 1997
      • Water Witches – 1995
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