Barbara DeMarco-Barrett is an author, creative-writing teacher, and host of the podcast Writers on Writing. Her latest book "Pool Fishing" is a collection of noir short stories and releases Sept 16.

We talk about her book Pool Fishing, the genre Noir, breaking the law, making bad decisions, creating characters, setting and how it affects story, eliciting an emotional response, Stephen King, her father's secret other family, bad relationships, first sentences, writing and emotions, poetry, endings, collecting typewriters, ways of dealing with sadness, when writing surprises us, writing novels, writing in third person and first person, past tense and present tense, mistakes new authors commonly make, the importance of reading, practice, journaling, sailing, the Panama Canal, and more.

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