Q&A with Carleton Whaley: Writing as Discovery

It was so much fun to interview Carleton Whaley for this week’s Q&A because experimentation and discovery are at the heart of his creative process. Carleton’s fiction has been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and longlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50. He’s been published in Paper Darts, Occulum, New South Journal, Five: 2: One, and so much more.

q&aLillie GardnerAugust 13, 2021carleton whaley, writing, short stories, fiction, creative process, editing, titles, endingsComment

What Should I Call This? (On Titles)

I’m pretty okay with the whole creative process—the collection of materials and the fashioning of the materials into a form. What I struggle with is coming up with titles for the formed materials. On the one hand, shouldn’t the work speak for itself? On the other, the title contains the formed materials, making them officially cohesive.

lillie's musingsLillie GardnerMay 24, 2021titles, art history, music history, literature, hemingway, fitzgerald, dorothy parker, movies, tv shows, Saul bass, writing process, artComment

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