![]() ![]() Eventually, the back and forth made me feel too scattered. “For nearly a year I kept a restaurant job in Minneapolis and would drive back and forth every few days. Her acclaimed look at life along Lake Superior in three different centuries ended up taking eight years to write. I wanted to have the lake out my window, and to push myself toward more focus,” she says. “The move was going to be for just one year. ![]() Danielle Sosin decided she couldn’t properly research the North Shore from afar, so in 2003 she relocated to Duluth to write her novel, “The Long-Shining Waters” ( Milkweed Editions). Taking the time for due diligence usually pays off, although some writers take it to extremes. ![]() Most writers don’t do enough of it - such as Jonah Lehrer, who somehow didn’t think that legions of rabid Bob Dylan fans wouldn’t notice if he made up a few things. There’s something to be said for research. ![]()
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