Growing up, I wanted to be an actress. I studied theater in college and even spent time at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. When I realized I wasn’t very good and didn’t have the desire to get any better, I had to ask myself why exactly I’d pursued acting for so long. What about it intrigued […]
“Boom, Boom, Boom” as read by Warren Adler [iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/QkKs1jyy84s” align=”center” autoplay=”yes”] It ain’t my world no more And I’m getting tired of keeping score I feel trapped in an endless maze Wherever I turn is the latest craze Even when I try to list the things I hate I’m always at the gate too […]
People often ask, and I ask myself on a daily basis, why I have spent more than six decades writing novels, short stories, essays, poems, plays and occasional reportage, continuing to ply this obsession into the cusp of my dotage. My answer to others and especially to myself never seems quite adequate. Whether I take […]
Like almost every writer I know, I was an avid childhood reader: Tom Sawyer, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, etc. The moment at which I decided to try my own hand is indelible: as a romantic-hearted, muddle-headed fifteen-year-old, I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise (itself a romantic-hearted, muddle-headed novel) on the brick […]
To me, the most rewarding part of being a writer is the actual writing. I love crafting stories. I love wrestling with plot. I love pitting characters against one another, or turning their worlds upside down just when they’re getting the hang of things. It’s the most fun you can have without risking arrest. www.heidiheilig.com
The caller made it clear-$10 million or her daughter’s head. The power of unintended consequences sends the privileged life of prominent anti-war activist Sarah Raab crashing down around her. Fear and terror take hold and Sarah turns to former CIA operative Carl Helman, a man she has only just met and who stands against everything […]
I hate writing. I hate the process of it. The loneliness. I hate staring at a blank page knowing it must be filled. Yes, must. That’s the key word. I’m convinced that no one writes because they want to. Why would anyone put themselves through the process? What level of masochist am I as a […]
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