Please forgive me, I’m thinking aloud as I’m whittling my way, tortuously, to some take-home messages to come. Here’s the problem: I finished the sixth version of my memoir a few days ago, and within an hour of putting the last period on the final page I started listing all the relevant ideas and events [...]
Editor’s Note: We've all read stories that keep us enthralled the whole way through. For me, "Empty Pages" is one of them. Since readers interpret stories in their own ways, I asked Joram: What inspired this story of crime and love, and what message do you hope to relay with your fictional works? I had [...]
I consider myself a writer now, not because I am starting to publish, but because I care so much about how it’s phrased and whether it’s good enough, which it never is. When I gave my friend Warren, who had extensive writing experience, one of my early short stories, he urged me to dispense with [...]
