What are you working on? : Gary Amdahl

Just posted in my series of interviews with writers about their current projects, Gary Amdahl, author of the just-published Visigoth. (Disclosure: Amdahl and I have the same agent.)

WIth much experience as a playwright, Amdahl is working on a novel:

In the theater, the more you write, very often the worse it is. In a book, you have no other recourse: if you want something understood, you write it out. If you write yourself into a corner, you can write yourself out. Plays require architecture and carpentry; the thing has to be sound. A novel is more forgiving of uncertainty and (even awkward) explorations.

Gary Amdahl, writers, playwrighting