How Rick Moody Writes

[kennyc]

I just read his story "Boys" in the Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction.

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Dylan Greif: What do you consider your essential writing tools?

Rick Moody: I'm not sure any tool is essential, or, to put it another way, every time I assume a certain tool is essential a situation presents itself in which I have to make do without. This reminds me of something John Cheever says in an interview about writers and their offices. How the more ornate office often corresponds to the less productive writer, etc. I have written things in appalling circumstances. In the worst motels, on scraps of paper and envelopes. And oftentimes the reduced circumstance takes me to creative places I wouldn't go otherwise. So I have no tool that I rely on permanently and without variation.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/electr...b_1897380.html

I don't find the story on line but here is a vid of him reading it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3HXmkbhjfo