Writers and fallout
Writer and lipizzan horse-wrangler Judith Tarr has been coming out with interesting stuff this past couple weeks.
First there was the League of Shattered Authors, which opened up discussions all over the net, and here is an unflinching look at the personal fallout.
But there are good times, too, as this interview makes clear.
What makes a writer write? I wonder sometimes if the urge to commit communication to paper is inborn. When I come across diaries by people who had no claim to fame--and knew they had no claim to fame--unpublished during the writers' lifetime, like the almost unremittingly grim diaries of Miss Weeton, a governess for a large part of her life, it convinces me that some people just have to.
Fiction writing is another remove from committing one's life to paper; many think it entirely frivolous, and it certainly belongs to those in comfortable enough circumstances to be able to do it, yet story is so tightly bound into the human condition. So many motivations for doing it, especially over the long haul, as janni has been exploring of late.
First there was the League of Shattered Authors, which opened up discussions all over the net, and here is an unflinching look at the personal fallout.
But there are good times, too, as this interview makes clear.
What makes a writer write? I wonder sometimes if the urge to commit communication to paper is inborn. When I come across diaries by people who had no claim to fame--and knew they had no claim to fame--unpublished during the writers' lifetime, like the almost unremittingly grim diaries of Miss Weeton, a governess for a large part of her life, it convinces me that some people just have to.
Fiction writing is another remove from committing one's life to paper; many think it entirely frivolous, and it certainly belongs to those in comfortable enough circumstances to be able to do it, yet story is so tightly bound into the human condition. So many motivations for doing it, especially over the long haul, as janni has been exploring of late.