(Yes, after the Cure song!) I think there is a small movement of people moving back home in their late thirties - not the 'boomerang' generation of 25-year-olds but people who have financial problems and their folks are doing better than they are. My folks' generation saved like crazy but my generation is more willing to take risks and follow their happiness and all of that, as my dad calls it, "nonsense." And as a result I know two close friends aside from my sister who moved home very, very late in life.
I must editorialize here for a second, and say thanks, Jancee, for finding it easier to write a novel. Non-writers or even writers who have never written a memoir and aren't totally ego-driven, don't understand how truly difficult it is to dig so deep into yourself, and much more... but enough.
I ask every writer about their writing habits hoping to find that the key is slacking off, and spending endless hours on emails. However...
I get up, have breakfast, and then block off three hours of uninterrupted time, because the morning is when I'm freshest. I used to waste that time on e mails but no more. Then I have lunch and do a couple more hours.
I'm very disciplined, and at 6 p.m, I'm done for the day, like a senior citizen. A few friends of mine write at night but I get too tired (again, like a senior.) I use the Graham Greene model of writing 500 words a day. After that, I begin to ramble.
Another writer heard from. Endless emails and slacking off isn't the way to success. So much for my fantasy of never actually having to do anything.
Jancee Dunn is one of my newest favorite writers. I had two copies of her book and now have none, as people would "borrow" them. Nobody can resist: But Enough About Me...
I don't usually plug books by writers who didn't start as bloggers. But I saw the book at Borders. The title grabbed me, the cover intrigued me, and the first page had me hooked.
I can't be at her New York Women In Communications event at Planet Hollywood in New York on September 25, as I'm writing this from another type of shag capital, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, but if you're in New York please go, and say hello for me.
Article comments
1 - Doug
It takes Pia to get cut off while asking a question by email. Don't tell me the most important skill of an interviewer isn't interruptibility.
Great interview. I'll check for the book.
2 - cooper
Great interview. She sounds like she'd be worth a read. I am definitely going to check out the book now, on your recommendation.
3 - Chandira
Anything you recommend must be worth the read! I'll also look out for it. :-)
4 - G
Great interview - that was fun. I will have to check out the book because as a Jersey girl myself (although haven't lived there for 17 years, you're always one), I am sure I will find a fair amount of relatability.
5 - jacob
I will check out this book. My wife is half Jersey Girl.
6 - Miz BoheMia
*sigh* It seems that everyone here is either a Jersey girl or related to one but...
I will stick to my love of a certain New Yawker interviewer drawing me in. :-) Fabulous interview my dear Pia... I am not one who makes it through most but this one had me from the getgo and I gobbled it up with noisy, chatty, breakfasting kids by my side... to be able to make me tune them out means to have talent amiga mia and anyone that you recommend is a must read FO SHO!