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Fear is a wonderful place for writers. A character who is genuinely terrified is in the best place because the reader is going to be terrified as well.
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Your reader comes into your narrative to steal knowledge — who you are and what is all around you, what you use, or don’t use, why you need, or fear, or want — all that sweet reverberating detail.
~~ Dorothy Allison
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August 14, 2012 at 1:14 pm
I’m terrified. When I have time to write (summer) I can’t write, because I’m not in the classroom. So I am doomed to write when I am most insane – during the academic year. I’m nuts, I’m crazy, but I’m immediate, and that’s key for my writing. To be IN the mix. I fear this place because I have so little left to give, but apparently, it’s my place of productivity. Ack.
August 14, 2012 at 1:16 pm
I hear you, Jess. I need the space to write, but I also need to feel like I’m panicked and scared and worried. I can’t laze about. I have to feed the monster.
August 14, 2012 at 1:27 pm
In two weeks I’ll have professors making me do it! But that’s different. I love that Dorothy Allison quote.
August 14, 2012 at 4:18 pm
I’m not sure I have enough words in my vocabulary to say how much I adore Dorothy….
August 15, 2012 at 3:52 am
Likewise. Oh the motorcycle!
August 14, 2012 at 5:03 pm
I love that “stealing knowledge” concept — how true. A good thing to keep in mind when writing, to try to make everything worthy of theft.
August 14, 2012 at 5:24 pm
“When writing, to try to make everything worthy of theft.”
I love this Laura. Can i steal it?
August 16, 2012 at 9:08 am
Is that YOU looking all badass? Because if it is, I like you even more.
August 16, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Oh I wish …. it’s my hero, Dorothy Allison. A badass if there ever was ….