Day 4: In-Between Pantsing & Plotting with Jane Roper

Join us as we explore other ways to get writing on the page, plan only what you need, and keep you creative.

Jane Roper

Jane Roper is the author of a memoir, Double Time: How I Survived–and Mostly Thrived–Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins, and a novel, Eden Lake. Her new novel, The Society of Shame, will be published by Anchor Books in April, 2023. Jane’s writing has appeared in Salon, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Millions, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, Cognoscenti, Writers’ Digest and elsewhere. She is also the producer and on-air host of “The Zeitgeist,” on A Mighty Blaze, where she interviews authors whose books tackle of-the-moment topics like gender, race, class, culture, ability, technology and health. 

Books mentioned: From Where You Dream by Robert Olin Butler, particularly the chapter “A Writer Prepares”

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