“A great story for me is one that engages me emotionally. It’s like a love affair.” —Fred Waitzkin
“A great story can light up the page.” —Fred Waitzkin
“The joy of it is writing those paragraphs.” —Fred Waitzkin
This week’s episode of CNF, aka The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, features Fred Waitzkin, the author of several books including Searching for Bobby Fischer and his most recent novel Deep Water Blues.
Lots of tasty nuggets in this episode. Maybe what struck me most about it was his sheer love of writing as a craft, as an art. So we talk about that, how his mismatched parents taught him what he knows, how he must take a break after each book, and the how he cracked the code of Deep Water Blues by writing a screenplay, of all things.
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