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Starting out here with some lovely advice from Alice McDermott
Excerpt from Alice McDermott’s What About the Baby? There are many things that must be locked out of the room (of one's own) where we write: friends and family, critics, bills, trends in contemporary literature, to-do lists, even what we have written in the past and what we might write in the future. But chief among them is a point to be made—even when that point has kept us up all night, fired our emotions, made us both angry and sad, indignant and afraid. "Remember," Flannery O'Connor said, that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character When you have a character he will create his own situation and his situation will suggest some kind of resolution as you get into it. Wouldn't it be better for you to discover a meaning in what you write than to impose one? Nothing you write will lack meaning because the meaning is in you.
November 12, 2024 at 8:15 AM