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For day one I wrote about why I wanted to write the short story that has been foundering, and was surprised by what I wrote. And how much I wrote! I’ve been thinking about the technical aspects of the story more than why I want to write it. I have concerns the premise isn’t wild enough, and yet that is all outside of why I want to write it. This prompt was so valuable.
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That’s terrific, Nancy! I know where you’re coming from. It’s so easy to get bogged down in the craft that we forget the inspiration behind the story. While craft and technical issues are of course very important, those things can always be addressed in revision.
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I started writing this novel because I saw an exhibit by Lorna Simpson at the LACMA… There was this text with the art and the one that inspired me was, ” She dressed them as twins/sometimes female/sometimes male.”…
And it’s worth completing because I’m truly interested to know what happens. There is the intersection of all these stories that appear to be outside the story, but then they begin to infiltrate the main story…
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I LOVE this, Charles! Somehow, the handwritten nature of it and those big, bold titles just makes it look so SUBSTANTIAL.
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I’m dazzled by my own daydreaming events up here – my first sentence for why the reason I write this novel. I realize it isn’t a fantasy nor an illusion but an art forming quietly and squeezing into its unknown form and well into a shape (which I assume it may appear later). So quietly, I sit in and deactivate my self critic and activate my soulful self show me the truth of this endeavour. No hiding. I remove all walls for this first day. Yes, I was stuck, still, am stuck. Somewhere, haunted by fears of failure and success (Narcissism kicks in – sorry). Thank you, now I begin my second sentence – Maybe, I have changed my creative bulb up there misleading my -SELF to another flight of staircase. Thank you.
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