YOUNG CAM JANSEN/ LIONS' LUNCH MYSTERY, 2007. YOUNG CAM JANSEN/SPOTTED CAT MYSTERY, 2006. YOUNG CAM JANSEN/SUBSTITUTE MYSTERY, 2005 YOUNG CAM JANSEN/DOUBLE BEACH MYSTERY, 2002. YOUNG CAM JANSEN/PIZZA SHOP MYSTERY, 2000. YOUNG CAM JANSEN/ICE SKATE MYSTERY, 1998. YOUNG CAM JANSEN/CHOCOLATE CHIP MYSTERY, 1996. I feel somewhat sad to finish the final rewrite and have to send off a cherished manuscript. I love the rewriting, just playing with my words. It's the swim I love, not the jumping in the water, and not the stepping out.

But I keep rereading and rewriting until I'm satisfied.Ħ) What's the part of swimming that you love the most? I try not to put too much pressure on myself, not to demand a great first draft. The hardest part, I find, is discovering the voice for my story and that comes at the very beginning.ĥ) How do you overcome obstacles, problems, when swimming alone? I find it helpful to work on more than one project at a time. If I get stuck working on one manuscript, I start or continue work on another. How can there be dry spells in swimming? Being dry can only mean you stepped out of the water. I keep rereading what I've written and that takes me deeper and deeper into my story.ģ) How do you keep swimming through dry spells? Just jump in and write.Ģ) What keeps you afloat.for short work? For longer work? The only way to get into the water is to jump in.

If writing was like swimming.an interview with Bruce Black:ġ) how do you get into the water each day?

The Babe and I by David A. Adler