Writers' confessions 2 writer's mentality ; the physical act of writing ; the writer's struggle

Summary: "Anita Desai considers herself a "generational dinosaur" because she prefers paper and pen. Susan Swan dictates her work, after years as a reporter trained her to tell a story into the telephone. Shauna Singh Baldwin continually pours early ideas into a "frag file" on her computer and finds that characters' voices begin to emerge. These and other authors consider the self-involvement needed to write, the practical steps they take to get their ideas down each day and how they manage to keep at it through rough patches." --web site.