Some Excerpts from Issue 8 It would seem impossible to write for three or four months about a single image. But if you can do it, the result is magical: If you can draw the rabbit out of this top hat, you will be amazed by what’s possible in the world, in all those things around you.—Alberto Rios, interviewed by Susan McInnis But if you go to Paris or Madrid or some other place where you’re surrounded by people speaking another language, immersing yourself in that is interesting because it makes you very homesick for your own language, and then your writing becomes the way you’re reunited with that language. And you have this great, intense relationship. —Lorrie Moore, interviewed by Jim Schumock
While this approach may leave you with an enormous amount of revision after your first draft is done, it allows you to proceed each day without falling into a crippling critique of what you’ve already written. —Melanie Bishop |
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