I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.
I think one's person's unlikeable is another's lovable.
Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut.
Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.
Being a reporter took me out of myself and that shaped me as a writer.
I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.