Acclaimed author of Stand the Storm and River, Cross My Heart , an Oprah Book Club Selection, Breena Clarke, will discuss her life as a writer, her process for crafting fiction and what keeps her writing.
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When I’m asked to answer the queries — what is your process? — why do you write? I begin by saying that I come to writing as a reader. I believe it is important for me to claim that because it does explain why and how I write. I also admit that I answer this way to reinforce the notion that I am studious, scholarly, serious.
I think writing long fiction is good for me because this is what I like to read. So– when I say I’m reading, seventy-five percent of the time I am reading a novel.
But you know what? There is another bit of it.
There is something I am less eager to mention — an aspect of my personality that isn’t always desirable.
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“Imitate form, not content. The tendency to imitate form and not content seems to relate directly to talent.”
–Peter Selgin, 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers
The present world of fiction sees many young writers interweaving the works of previous writers into the young author’s new creation.
I recently read an article about a young German writer who won an award for her work that had used large excerpts of a previous writer’s work in young novelist’s creation.
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What draws us to write is often comprises that which presents our greatest challenge when writing a story, or novel.
The psychic and emotional wounds that compel us to write present the greatest, and yet oftentimes, most invisible obstacles we encounter throughout the process of crafting and refining our stories for public consumption.
So what are these demons that lay in way upon the trail we hew in seeking to manifest our dreams, the demons that rear their heads, beautiful and ugly that can distract and pull me from the path as ordered by my heart?
They come in many sizes and shapes.
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I find it hard when praying to ask for blessings regarding my writing. perhaps that’s because I feel already gifted in that I am able to write, that my ability to craft stories and that I am doing so is such a wonderful gift.
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The month of November has ended. And so goes with it the time of NaNoWriMo.
Yet while the month draws to a close the experience does not. It will never leave me. Or shall I say I will never
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While some are daunted by the daily word count asked of us (1600) during NaNoWriMo, the positive aspect of this entire venture is to simply write. …
Such a high word count due to the compression of time (one month) leaves little time to think, which for me, is where the inner critic slips in
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