Will Walker
Will Walker
William Walker may refer to:...
father lying fall
I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.
creepy abundance turns
Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.
stories sometimes saddest
Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
editors reader
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.
motivation inspiration knowing
Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
scary-stories newspapers ifs
If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
way degrees persevere
To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
love-is joy feelings
Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.
trying president fiction
I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.
stories imagine reader
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.
reading sunday years
I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
coffee writing sunday
I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.
moving writing editing
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.
earthquakes ideas haunting
Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.