A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
Rick BassWrite every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writingโand if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing. Don't become self-satisfied, don't stop moving ahead, growing, making it new. The stakes are high. Why else would we write?
Rick BassFiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
Rick Bass