![]() If you’re too careful, too precise, your phantom editor will never stop looking over your shoulder. Q: What advice do you give to anyone who wants to be a historical fiction writer like you?Ī: Ernest Hemingway said “Write drunk, edit sober.” What I believe he meant – and have discovered myself – is that the first draft is all about inspiration. I was proud of my little shelf of self-published books. Even at 5 years old I thought of myself as an author. Sometimes I wrote stories in a series (like my favorite picture books about a hedgehog named Frances who had complex feelings and an annoying younger sister, not unlike my own). I don’t remember whether she instructed me to write stories that would fill the entire book or whether it was my own obsessive-compulsive decision, but I planned them carefully so that each story would end on the final page (with “THE END” in block letters for emphasis). ![]() ![]() Q: So, Christina, at what point in your life did you realize you wanted to be a writer?Ī: When I was able to spell phonetically around age 5, my mother started making blank books for me to write in: sheets of typing paper between cardboard covers, hole-punched down one side and held together with string. ![]() Christina is the author of “Orphan Train,” “Orphan Train Girl,” “A Piece of the World,” and “The Exiles.” ![]() This afternoon I have the pleasure of doing a Q&A with #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline. ![]()
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