My process early on isn’t my process now. The further I get into this process, the more I realize every book’s going to be different. Revision is where you finally get to chuck that son of a bitch on the wheel and make something. I’ve been a fan of yours for a while now, and I remember one time reading where you compared writing a first draft to going out and digging up clay.ĭJ: My mother was a potter. Well, that’s how they end up in my freezer.ĮC: Damn, what a way to start an interview. People get chickens, and a couple turn out to be roosters. When folks don’t want animals around here, I take them. He’d also gotten tied up with some ducks the day before, which seems like the perfect spot to kick this thing off.ĭavid Joy: There’s a guy had a bunch of these Peking ducks he didn’t want. So far out, he had to drive twenty miles just to call me via Zoom. That makes a lot of sense, considering David lives way up in the mountains of North Carolina. This installment of Shop Talk ventures well off the beaten path. David Joy is the author of the novels The Weight Of This World, The Line That Held Us, When These Mountains Burn, and Where All Light Tends to Go, which will be made into a film directed by Ben Young, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Robin Wright.
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