I’m what’s known as a pantser, which means I develop the stories as I write them (“fly by the seat of my pants”) rather than plotting them out beforehand. Q: From a writing standpoint, how do you gage timing, know how much to reveal in such a short time and do you have to do any work developing the characters or the story arc before the story is written or does it just all come together as you write? Another was dramatized in a production of Stories on Stage. A number of the stories were published in magazines before being included in the book. With the exception of one very short one, I spent more than a year writing and revising each of them. Q: How long did writing each story take? Have any of them been published on their own prior to this book? Many stories I wrote didn’t make the cut. The pain we all feel at being excluded and our tremendous desire to belong was one of my preoccupations, but I wasn’t thinking of writing a collection during that entire time.
I wrote the stories over a ten-year period. Q: Did you write each story with the others in mind? Are there other stories that didn’t make the cut? Did you always plan on putting these together in a collection? Being outsiders creates challenges for these characters that they try to overcome in the stories. In “No Shortage of Birds,” a young girl becomes alienated from her mother and her friends when her father dies. In “Collections,” a woman is excluded from her wealthy partner’s upper crust world because of her race and class. For example, in the story “Tattoo,” a tattoo artist is shunned because of his unusual appearance.
What connects the stories in We Love Anderson Cooper is that the main characters are outsiders. Thanks so much for the kind words about the collection. Every main character seems to have a problem or obstacle they face and tackle during the short time we are with them and I became invested in each and every one! Are any of these short stories in We Love Anderson Cooper linked or connected to each other in any way? Q: From a reader’s point of view, each of your stories in this wonderful collection stand on its own and is unrelated, with different characters and situations. Maizes about this new short story collection, her writing process and more. I really loved all the stories and was thrilled to have the opportunity to chat with author R.L. I haven’t read a lot of short stories and when the publisher asked me to take a look at We Love Anderson Cooper I was happy to do so…the title made me smile and when the book arrived I was increasingly motivated by the great looking cover!Ī teenage boy coming out publicly at his Bar Mitzvah, a cat playing favorites during the Christmas/Hanukah holiday season, the relief of a called off wedding, and the power of a couch…so wonderful getting to know the varied characters and becoming absorbed in their emotional journeys in such a short time.
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