![]() ![]() I talked to my wife, Jennie, and she said she’d support whatever I chose to do. And Jose encouraged me to face that story, to start now that I had a novel warm-up. I had this real, true, dark story in my past, a story of three years that nobody in my family wanted to relive. Then my writing partner at the time, Jose Chaves, told me to stop. But I spent two years writing and revising that manuscript, and I didn’t even know how bad it was. It had every cliche coming-of-age-first-novel convention: The wise friend, the father-son issues, the near-death experience for the protagonist. And then, with all this new writing time, I wrote a big, long, horrible novel. I thought, if I’m already going to skip sleep, I may as well skip a little more sleep to get up early and write every single day. Peter: After my first daughter was born, I committed to being tired. Paper Fort:What was your process for writing The End of Boys? We asked Peter a few questions about his writing life and his path to publication: In 2011, Soft Skull Press will publish his first book, a memoir, The End of Boys. Peter Brown Hoffmeister was awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship in 2006. ![]()
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