Freak Thoughts

The interviewer in this one sort of fumbles through the questions, at one point even confusing himself.

I like how Palahniuk defines what a good story is. It’s somehow organic, and I can see that, even with the stories we tell one another without pens or paper or computer screens or blogs. At the same time, he is speaking to the point about marketability and even, on a larger scale, universality.

He also outlines what a typical writing workshop is, outside academia–essentially a small party a few friends who love to write read each other’s stuff and comment on it. There’s really nothing that can compare to it, after the formal classroom setting is no longer available. It keeps you writing, and it provides a sounding board of honest people interested in craft.