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“Writing starts with living.”
“Have tea, might write, Laura returned.”
“Have tea, might write,” Laura returned.”
“Writing starts with living.Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”
“Writing starts with living.—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”
“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 & Writing”
“This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps werent there, but might be. And even that didnt matter if, in the end, readers needed something to be there. They ...”
“If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megans request? Couldnt Laura, with a little doing, keep stringing together line after line of words and co...”
“If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick it apart, looking for symbols like The Conch or The Whale, which seemed to have ...”
“Maybe you didnt need to know anything special to write a work of fiction. Maybe you didnt need to delve into some kind of life question you knew youd lived. Perhaps your subconscious would do the j...”
“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 ...”
“One Bagatelle, and Ill 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.Ill writ...”
“Had Mary Shelley fretted so? Maybe yes, maybe no. Shed begun her classic work on a dare. Had culled a dream to bring it into being. But it was not lost on Laura that the story might be a prolonged ...”
“Maybe Lauras real problem came in admitting this: there was nothing new under the sun. To write a story would be, somehow deep down, to embrace her limits, to admit that, indeed, she would someday ...”
“You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasnt it? The old moth-to-the-flame image had been used and used again. It was the stuff of amateur poetry. And she, having ...”
“Maybe you didn’t need to know anything special to write a work of fiction. Maybe you didn’t need to delve into some kind of life question you knew you’d lived. Perhaps your subconscious would do th...”
“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...”
“Had Mary Shelley fretted so? Maybe yes, maybe no. She’d begun her classic work on a dare. Had culled a dream to bring it into being. But it was not lost on Laura that the story might be a prolonged...”
“Maybe Laura’s real problem came in admitting this: there was nothing new under the sun. To write a story would be, somehow deep down, to embrace her limits, to admit that, indeed, she would someday...”
“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...”
