Dwayna

Dwayna asked Erik Larson:

Do you ever pull all-nighters when writing?

Erik Larson No. Never. In fact, my secret weapon is to stop early in the day, while I'm ahead--sometimes in mid-paragraph, or even mid-sentence. By doing so, I guarantee that the next morning, when I sit down to write, I am almost immediately productive. It helps keep the terrors at bay. Binge writing, as I call it--or pulling all-nighters--can all too easily exhaust whatever that inner engine is that we writers rely on.

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I've read all your books and liked all of them very much. Have you ever been tempted to write a book about a post WW2 subject?

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I read Life After Life this summer...would love to know what you thought of it? Such a different book and approach to a subject. Thanks-

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Christen Jeschke asked Erik Larson:

How are you able to create such detailed scenes and narratIves as if you were in the room as each scene is occurring.?

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