Nancy Herkness

Ha! Don__ you know that writers are control freaks? We make our characters dance to our own weird tunes. That__ half the fun.__he angled his head ever so slowly to the right. __hat__ the other half?_ Just as the position became uncomfortable, she reversed the motion.__ewriting,_ he said. __ou know how you think of a brilliant response to an insult six hours later when it__ utterly useless? A writer has a time machine. I can go back to the moment the insult was hurled and parry it with my slow but rapier-sharp wit.___elax. I__e got you,_ she said, rotating his head gently to the right. __ guess us nonwriters think you just sit down at your computer and the book comes out the way we read it.___e foster that myth. It makes us seem more like creative geniuses and less like mere craftsmen.