Steven Amsterdam
Steven Amsterdam
Steven Amsterdamis an American writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, where he also works as a palliative care nurse...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth31 January 1966
CountryUnited States of America
advise family house member needs provide serve
You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to serve and to advise and to educate. You're not there to provide yourself.
fun writing might
I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.
design conscious used
I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.
writing looks rooms
I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.
hands attention fiction
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
book writing nursing
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?
character stories reason
A story is built on characters and reasons.
character track challenges
I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].
bats has-beens publishers
Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
wisdom our-world limits
The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.
nursing sight smell
Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.