![]() ![]() ![]() The novel I’d been fooling with since college-the one that would become The Absolute Value of -1-was a diversion. The truth is I always fancied myself a middle-grade writer. I even finished one novel, a derivative middle-grade fantasy. In the fourteen years in question, I started many short stories and several other novels. Instead I attacked it in fits and starts, driven not by some urge to finish a novel, but instead by an urge to get some scenes on paper-catharsis. ![]() I didn’t labor over the thing for all those years. I’ve often said it took fourteen years to finish, but that’s mildly disingenuous. Read on as Steve Brezenoff reveals the two big turning points in his life-death and birth-that also proved to be turning points in his writing… 99-in which I asked authors the question: What was your turning point as a writer? I’m honored and excited to host their stories. This guest post is part of the Turning Points blog series here on distraction no. ![]()
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