Cory Doctorow describes his writing process

Mark Frauenfelder 9:55 am Thu Oct 1, 2020

I enjoyed this short video interview with Cory about how he writes.

The last trip I took before the plague locked down the world involved a wonderful day at Tor Books to plan the release of Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book, coming in a mere 2 weeks.
The ensuing chaos means that nearly everything that happened that day was driven from my brain, such that I am now being pleasantly surprised on a daily basis by videos that I have no recollection recording, beautifully edited and presented by Tor's publicity team.
The latest of these just went live: "Cory Doctorow on Writing," which answers the following questions:
– What is your favorite way to procrastinate?
– What is your ideal time and place for writing?
– What's your advice for writing occasionally unlikeable characters? (Inspired by Masha, Attack Surface's antihero)

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