Une ITW de Michael Swanwick

[jerome]

Michael Swanwick est en interview sur Locus. Le site Locusmag a mis quelques extraits en ligne.

Extrait des extraits :

“I dedicated my life to writing when I was a teenager, and finished my first story when I was 29. I spent all those years writing stories and not being able to finish them. Gardner Dozois knew I was a writer, because like all young writers I could not shut up about it. But I had known him for many months and had not asked him for help, and he respected that and thought it might indicate I was the real thing. So he asked to see the story I was working on.

“He and Jack Dann workshopped it in Gardner's little apartment, and showed me how to finish the story. I went home that night, drunk on cheap sherry and literature. 'That's how you do it: you finish a story!' Three o'clock in the morning, staggering through the streets of Philadelphia, filled with stars in my head. It was as if God had reached down and flipped a switch. From then on I could always finish stories -- it was just a lot of work!”