People often ask, and I ask myself on a daily basis, why I have spent more than six decades writing novels, short stories, essays, poems, plays and occasional reportage, continuing to ply this obsession into the cusp of my dotage. My answer to others and especially to myself never seems quite adequate. Whether I take […]
Like almost every writer I know, I was an avid childhood reader: Tom Sawyer, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, etc. The moment at which I decided to try my own hand is indelible: as a romantic-hearted, muddle-headed fifteen-year-old, I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise (itself a romantic-hearted, muddle-headed novel) on the brick […]
To me, the most rewarding part of being a writer is the actual writing. I love crafting stories. I love wrestling with plot. I love pitting characters against one another, or turning their worlds upside down just when they’re getting the hang of things. It’s the most fun you can have without risking arrest. www.heidiheilig.com
The caller made it clear-$10 million or her daughter’s head. The power of unintended consequences sends the privileged life of prominent anti-war activist Sarah Raab crashing down around her. Fear and terror take hold and Sarah turns to former CIA operative Carl Helman, a man she has only just met and who stands against everything […]
I hate writing. I hate the process of it. The loneliness. I hate staring at a blank page knowing it must be filled. Yes, must. That’s the key word. I’m convinced that no one writes because they want to. Why would anyone put themselves through the process? What level of masochist am I as a […]
As a committed writer of imaginative fiction for virtually my entire life, I have often wondered about the effect my obsessive conduct and allocation of time to pursue such an occupation has had on my relationships with family, friends and others who need and crave my attention. What is the ultimate effect of a writer’s […]
As a committed writer of imaginative fiction for virtually my entire life, I have often wondered about the effect my obsessive conduct and allocation of time to pursue such an occupation has had on my relationships with family, friends and others who need and crave my attention. What is the ultimate effect of a writer’s […]
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