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Meredith Maran is the real thing. A working writer. She’s written ten published books, and the first was published when she was 18. The most recent, My Lie, is an open and controversial look at her work in the child sexual abuse movement and the false accusations against her father that she made while haunted by that work.

In the Book Writing World, we take a look at the pitches (or story lines) of our “bad guys,” because “everyone is the hero of his own story.” In My Lie, Maran acknowledges herself the “bad guy” in her story–not a usual perspective for a memoirist! And in this interview, she talks about the ways she gets herself to write every day, all year long. If you are getting ready to NaNoWriMo, don’t miss this look at the daily life, writing habits, craft mastery and marketing techniques of a writer by Marge Piercy’s great definition: “a real writer is one who really writes.”