‘The Writers Afterlife’ Gets Straight to the Heart of Why We Write

It’s a novel every writer should read

Paul Combs
The Book Cafe
Published in
4 min readMar 9, 2022

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Photo by author (of original cover art from Three Rooms Press)

Why do we write? It’s a question every writer asks themselves, sometimes on a daily basis. Why, rather than subjecting ourselves to the torture of the blank page, don’t we instead take up scrapbooking or the bassoon or rabbit breeding? Surely becoming a rodeo clown or a blacksmith or an…

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Paul Combs
The Book Cafe

Writer, bookseller, would-be roadie for the E Street Band. My ultimate goal is to make books as popular in Texas as high school football...it may take a while.