Chris Winters / is on Nostr

Senior editor for democracy & economy, YES! Magazine

Last Notes

2024-08-02 19:01:46

#WritersCoffeeClub 8/2: Is there a person in your life who encouraged you to write?
Several, starting with my mother, who also wrote short fiction, providing me with an early role model. But I also had a fifth-grade teacher who nurtured that creative bone, another high school teacher, and also a local writer/novelist whose workshop I attended as a teenager - he's still a friend today.
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2024-08-02 19:01:46

2024-06-27 17:38:08

#WritersCoffeeClub 6/27
What's the longest period of writer's block you've suffered, or do you not suffer?
I burned out from my MFA program, and it took, I'm estimating, about five years before I felt the drive to write again. But I didn't really find my footing and complete my first novel until about 25 years after that, however.

2024-06-13 17:53:58

#WritersCoffeeClub 6/13: What's your favorite antagonist to write? Villains, anti-heros, rivals?
I'm an anti-hero guy myself. I start from the point of view is that even the worst of the bad guys in history thought they were the good guys, or at very least, that their (ahem) noble ends justified their barbaric means. The same philosophy applies to flawed (anti-)heroes.

2023-09-01 21:45:12

Here’s a question for the #writingcommunity. What books inspire (present tense) you to write? For me it’s nonfiction histories of somewhat obscure places or events or even time periods. (One title is simply “1913”)

2023-08-16 19:01:44

For those who celebrate, I'm over on https://bsky.app/profile/chriswinters.bsky.social now. Not leaving here though, because this site is fun.