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Who:<\/strong> Liana Maeby<\/span><\/h3>\n

Claim to fame:\u00a0<\/strong>Her impressive debut novel South on Highland<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0Actor\/writer BJ Novak called it \u201cthe kind of book kids will steal from each other.\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n

Why\u2019d we pick her, in ten words:<\/strong> A novelist who can tweet with the best of them.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Where to find her:<\/strong> On Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

When did she first want to become a writer:<\/strong> “I was the quiet kid who was off scrawling stories in Crayon as soon as I learned the alphabet, and a writing career of some sort is the only thing I\u2019ve ever really pursued. Sometimes stubbornly, although that might be the only way to do it.”<\/span><\/h3>\n

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<\/b>Let\u2019s start with the basics: What time of day do you start writing? Is it easier for you to write early in the morning? Late at night?<\/b><\/h3>\n

It looks like we\u2019re off to a good start, because this question gets right at the most fundamental dilemma of my writerly existence. I wish I could say I wake up early and go straight to work for a consistent amount of time every day, but unfortunately, that couldn\u2019t be further from the truth. Which is that I\u2019m a night owl through and through, and the wee hours are when I\u2019m at my best.<\/span><\/p>\n

I need to be alone to write fiction, for I am a fragile flower — and the more utterly alone I am, the better. In the middle of the night, there are no distractions. I can get myself to a place where I feel like I\u2019m the only person in the world who\u2019s currently conscious, and that frees me up to be a little more vulnerable and experimental.<\/span><\/p>\n

The dilemma is that I really don\u2019t want to get too precious about the way I write. I firmly believe in treating writing it like the job that it is, and I am able to keep a more traditional schedule when I\u2019m working on non-fiction. But I just can\u2019t deny the simple fact that, like the world\u2019s most boring Gremlin, I become ten times more productive as soon as the clock strikes midnight.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your preferred tool for writing\u2014a word processor like Microsoft Word, Google Docs, etc.? A pen and paper?<\/b><\/h3>\n

I recently discovered a new writing tool and it\u2019s been an absolute game-changer, but I\u2019m not going to reveal what it is just yet because as a Serious Writer, I know how important it is to build tension!<\/span><\/p>\n

Notebooks have always been big for me, both in the early stages of a new project and as a way to get myself unstuck if I\u2019m struggling. But I have giant, chicken-scratch handwriting, and would always end up jotting down thoughts over half a dozen pages and then never really looking at them again. I have probably fifty illegible notebooks sitting in desk drawers, and I would easily have filled fifty more had I not been introduced to the most elegant solution by a friend, the author Ashley Cardiff:<\/span><\/p>\n

A sketchpad. A 9-by-12-inch artist\u2019s sketchpad. This has been my great revelation. It\u2019s unlined so I can read my bad handwriting and large enough that I can group several ideas together on the same page. Plus, it gives me an excuse to buy fancy mechanical pencils.<\/span><\/p>\n

Outside of my new love affair with sketchpads, I tend to use Google Docs for notes, and I do my actual writing in Word. I don\u2019t always write in order, however, so I\u2019ll have a handful of documents going at once. It\u2019s always a good feeling when I can move those smaller sections into the main manuscript.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, and notecards. Always notecards, color-coded with highlighters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you listen to music when you write, or do you prefer silence, or something else in the background?<\/b><\/h3>\n

Occasionally I\u2019ll listen to a specific song a few times before I start writing to help push myself into a certain mood, but other than that, I have a hard time focusing if there\u2019s a single blip of background noise more severe than, say, a bird chirping half a mile away.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you have any pre-writing rituals or habits?<\/b><\/h3>\n

After my 500<\/span>th<\/span> cup of coffee, I\u2019m usually ready to go. And I like to settle in with my dog either at my side or, as he prefers, around my shoulders like a 35-pound scarf. He\u2019s a good boy.<\/span><\/p>\n

How many words a day do you produce, or try to produce? How much of that ever sees the light of day?<\/b><\/h3>\n

I\u2019m a very precise and deliberate writer, and I edit as I go along. My natural inclination is to work sentence-by-sentence without moving on until I feel I\u2019ve gotten every word exactly right — so I have to fight that impulse a bit. It\u2019s tricky, though. Writing is so much about rhythm for me, and I have a hard time seeing the shape of the whole if the rhythm of the parts is off. But then it\u2019s like, oh no, I\u2019ve been moving a comma around for two hours and my brow is permanently furrowed and Sisyphus is rolling his eyes at me\u2026 and that just isn\u2019t productive.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve been actively working to balance my obsessive tendencies, but I\u2019m never going to be the Usain Bolt of writing (or the Stephen King of running, for that matter). A thousand-word day is a very good day for me, and sometimes I\u2019ll tap out at 500 or 600. Obviously, the biggest drawback to this kind of writing is that if I end up cutting a whole chapter, it\u2019s a chapter I\u2019ve spent a lot of time on. But that doesn\u2019t happen very often, which I suppose is one advantage of my hyperfocused writing style. That, and not having to do much line editing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your debut novel, <\/b>South on Highland<\/i><\/b><\/a>, came out in 2015. What was the research process for that like? How is it different than the research you might do for nonfiction articles?<\/b><\/h3>\n

I\u2019m actually pretty deep into Book Two (that\u2019s just the working title) at the moment, and I\u2019ve had to do SO much more research this time around. I don\u2019t mean to totally sell myself short, but I recognize that <\/span>Highland<\/span><\/i><\/a> was basically the easiest kind of novel to write: first-person narrator based loosely on myself, the built-in framework of the addiction memoir to semi-satirize. One of my intentions with the book was to examine the cult of the personal narrative that\u2019s come to dominate so much young, modern writing and (hopefully) subvert it. So research-wise, that meant reading an endless stream of books and essays within the genre, and I definitely went a little crazy during that period!<\/span><\/p>\n

The new thing I\u2019m writing is more of a straightforward novel with eschatological and environmental themes, and I\u2019ll admit I probably over-researched it. Partly, that\u2019s because my brain tends toward the obsessive, but it\u2019s also because I have a deep-seated fear of getting something wrong. I imagine most writers share this concern to some extent, though it\u2019s something I\u2019ve heard expressed by women in particular. There\u2019s this nagging fear that if we get one tiny fact wrong, it will invalidate the entire book for the reader.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you first sit down to write, let\u2019s say, a blog post, how do you start?<\/b><\/h3>\n

With the central idea or point I want to make, and then I build it out from there. I rarely ever start at the beginning with anything I write.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your process for editing your own work if you have one?<\/b><\/h3>\n

Time away from the material is key for me. It gives me perspective. And I\u2019m always much more willing to kill a darling if I\u2019ve completely forgotten about her in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you find that you write differently for your short-form work versus your longer form books?<\/b><\/h3>\n

My short-form work is often more comedy-based and that kind of activates a different part of my brain. I generally feel like something\u2019s either funny at its core or it isn\u2019t, and that means there\u2019s less obsessive tweaking I can do either way. Not that I don\u2019t engage in <\/span>some<\/span><\/i>amount of obsessive tweaking.<\/span><\/p>\n

People often discuss social media in the context of procrastination and wasting time. Especially with respect to writers and creatives, being on platforms like Twitter all the time seems counter-productive. There’s even a Twitter handle called <\/b>Working On My Novel<\/b><\/a> that pokes fun at people spend time Tweeting about writing instead of actually writing. And yet you’ve been named to Best of Twitter lists and built a dedicated following on the platform. How does social media factor into your writing routine? Do you find it difficult to balance the two?<\/b><\/h3>\n

I\u2019ll absolutely admit that I\u2019ve lost many hours to the social media black hole, but I also feel like I wouldn\u2019t really have a career without it. I started blogging (and then tweeting) in college, and it led directly to my first paid writing jobs. And I know it didn\u2019t hurt that I had some Twitter followers when I was out trying to sell my book.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t just that I acknowledge that social media is necessary, I treat it as something worthy of genuine effort. If people are going to be kind enough to follow me on Twitter, I want to make sure I\u2019m offering something in return. For me, this means a handful of solid, thought-out jokes every week. It also means being somewhat judicious about what I post, which, embarrassingly, sometimes requires some discipline.<\/span><\/p>\n

I find it\u2019s worth the effort, though. Just last month, I tweeted something during Sally Yates\u2019 senate testimony that resonated with folks, and a day later an opinion editor for the New York Times reached out to see if I wanted to write an op-ed<\/a>. And the next thing you know, my grandmother\u2019s telling me she\u2019s proud of me! Which never would have happened if I hadn\u2019t made it a priority to maintain a social media presence that seems halfway worth following.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone says that the first step to being a good writer is to read good writers\u2019 writing. What do you read? How much do you read? Favorite novel?<\/b><\/h3>\n

I try not to let myself read fiction while I\u2019m writing it because I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ll unknowingly steal something. At the moment, I\u2019ve been compromising with voice-heavy non-fiction \u2013 <\/span>Joan Didion<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>James Baldwin<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Maggie Nelson<\/span><\/a>. And I\u2019m finally reading <\/span>The Empathy Exams<\/span><\/i><\/a>, which is great.<\/span><\/p>\n

Favorite novel of all time? <\/span>Pale Fire<\/span><\/i><\/a> is up there for sure. Faulkner was a very influential dude in my teenage years, though I fear I wouldn\u2019t have the patience for him now. <\/span>The Names<\/span><\/i><\/a> by DeLillo. <\/span>Go Tell It on the Mountain<\/span><\/i><\/a> \u2013 how the hell was that a first novel? I think about <\/span>Coming Through Slaughter<\/span><\/i><\/a> a lot, how intense and all-consuming the experience of reading that book was. And Donna Tartt and Colum McCann are the contemporary writers whose work I go through and reexamine at the most.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you consider writing to be easy? Would you say it comes to you naturally?<\/b><\/h3>\n

Writing is my comfort zone, and in that sense, it\u2019s the most natural thing in the world. It\u2019s how I collect my thoughts and generally make sense of things. Which is great in terms of being a professional writer, but not so awesome when, say, I get into an argument with someone and my impulse is to go off and respond with a long email instead of having an actual conversation. If I could correspond with a therapist via pen and paper, I would be the most eager patient in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is writing easy? God, no. But it\u2019s something I care about very deeply and that certainly helps things along.<\/span><\/p>\n

When did your aspirations to become a writer begin, and at what age did you start writing in hopes of living off of it\/making a life out of it?<\/b><\/h3>\n

I was the quiet kid who was off scrawling stories in Crayon as soon as I learned the alphabet, and a writing career of some sort is the only thing I\u2019ve ever really pursued. Sometimes stubbornly, although that might be the only way to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last question: the main character in your novel is a talented up and coming writer who repeatedly jeopardizes her success with her addictions. I got the sense that she very much loved the narrative\u2014the badass movie version of being a writer much more than the drudgery and reality of it as a profession. How do you think about that? Any advice to up and coming writers struggling with those demons?<\/b><\/h3>\n

That\u2019s exactly right \u2013 my character loves the idea of being a writer and that manifests as an inability to see her own life as anything other than a narrative. Her existence becomes a tool for generating material. And since she\u2019s a young woman growing up in Los Angeles, this inevitably means drugs and sex and then addiction.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you\u2019ve cultivated a dramatic arc for your life, along with an intense self-mythology, it becomes a lot easier to indulge the demons. And it doesn\u2019t help that our culture is obsessed with all forms of \u201creality\u201d entertainment, where content and creator are inextricably tied. So why not have another drink or ten? Because that\u2019s what the character would do. But while the movie version of you gets to brood seductively to a Tom Waits song in a dimly-lit bar, the actual-human you just ends up with a hangover and a word count of zero.<\/span><\/p>\n

Writing <\/span>Highland<\/span><\/i> was absolutely a way for me both indulge and and reject the urge to self-mythologize. And to move on from it. (I say as I complete a long explanation of my personal process!) Because here\u2019s the truth: if the work is good, it will speak for itself, but the only way to end up with something good is to sit down and do the damn work.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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