Writing starts with living.
—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity
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Writing starts with living.
L.L. BarkatTags: writing writing-advice writing-life writing-philosophy writing-process
We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and delight come early.
—from Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity
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Laura thought Bell would have a few things to say to Pynchon. And Laura had a few things to say to Bell, like, How the hell was a writer supposed to know when she was one-fifth through her novel-writing, so she could cut a door into the wall and shove her character out into the forest?
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Maybe the real problem wasn’t that she had nothing to write about, but that she had too much. Maybe she wasn’t afraid of her finiteness after all, but rather Infinity and how it called her to begin somewhere, anywhere. To begin might be an acceptance that indeed she was some kind of creator, with tremendous powers.
It might mean taking people’s lives into her hands–her own life, her friends’, even her father’s or mother’s. And maybe she was afraid they would think she had animated a wandering Frankenstein no one wanted to hold.
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One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.
“Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution for the British empire,” Laura returned.
“Writing for me,” Megan had typed.
“I’ll write you a tea fortune.”
“No deal. I want a novel. September sounds good.
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A writer is always writing for someone.
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She meant you have to live a story for a time.'
'And?'
'And then you can write it, in time. What have you lived?'
'Kind of a personal question for Twitterland.'
'Kind of the perfect question to answer in fiction.
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Tea was more than boiling water. There were decisions to be made and a frame of mind to develop, no matter how imperceptible.
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You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame image had been used and used again. It was the stuff of amateur poetry. And she, having so little experience crafting a story, would be the most in danger of falling into trite approaches. If she wrote a novel, it probably would be about her father. And the male Luna moth would haunt its pages. Everyone would recognize the work as that of a first novelist. “She wrote about herself through the lens of her father.”
The really good novelists, Laura thought, put their fathers, and maybe their mothers too, deeper into the stories. Which, she suddenly thought, might redeem Melville just the littlest bit.
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