Mona Awad’s Three Essential Writing Tools

August 11, 2021 | 1 book mentioned

At Literary Hub, Mona Awad shares the writing process behind her latest novel, All’s Well, a sardonic tale of a theater professor putting on Shakespeare’s most hated play, and her desired conditions for diving into storytelling. “Time, faith, and momentum are inextricably tied for me,” Awad says. “If I have all three and I’m really on a roll, then I can pretty much fall into the story anytime, day or night. Those are the best seasons. I still look back on them as some of the happiest times in my life.”

is a writer and illustrator. She is the author of two illustrated books, Last Night's Reading (Penguin Books, 2015) and Sanpaku (Archaia 2018).