The Laughing String: Thoughts on Writing

The Laughing String collects author and playwright Stephen Evans' thoughts on writing and the writing life: what inspires him, what confuses him, and what makes him smile.

The title comes from a poem by W. B. Yeats:

"Bred to a harder thing

Than Triumph, turn away

And like a laughing string

Whereon mad fingers play

Amid a place of stone,

Be secret and exult,

Because of all things known

That is most difficult."

This new edition includes an appendix containing the author's undergraduate thesis entitl...