If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones.… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most writers are… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose is more… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
As I've picked up more responsibilities in life, I've found nearly every one of those extra burdens drains me in a way that makes… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world,… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path you cannot… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
At the time I was first writing the stories/essays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people would be… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one flows constantly… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
