Yep. Well, you do give a lot of advice, don’t you? I mean you teach creative writing classes.
I do.
Do you still do that? Even with all this on your plate?
I still do it. But I only teach one class a year nowadays. So, it only lasts for about three months. But I feel a need to do that because it was in that class when I was an undergraduate, long ago, that I got the final bit of information I needed, it was the final kick in the pants, so to speak, to go get published.
Oh.
It was taught by David Farland at the time who was just doing what I’m doing. He was a professional writer. He was just stepping in to teach the class for a few years. And he gave me real world publishing advice, gave the whole class real world publishing advice. A lot of creative writing classes are very touchy feely. That’s a good thing; they’ll talk about the feel of writing and how to grow a story and all of this stuff. But Dave was the first one that came in and said, “Look, you can do this for a living. I’m going to tell you how and we’re going to talk about the nuts and bolts of creating a story.” And that was wildly useful to me. And so I feel a need to go back, when I have the opportunity and explain to new writers, those same sorts of things.
Dave knows what he’s talking about too. I mean, he did the Runelords.
Yep, Mm hmm. Which is also a New York Times bestselling success now.
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