This is one of the most enheartening posts I've ever read about writing - despite outward appearances.
It should be hard, and I forget that when I read a book like Melusine and its sequels: books so lovely and weaving that it seems like they rolled off your tongue like a song. That first novel hurt me, cut into me, for so many reasons. It is beautiful and terrible - and the continuing story is so much more so knowing that it hurts you too.
But you should know that when I get my hot little hands on my copy of Corambis I will read every word with an extra slice of relish because I'll remember how those those words fought you. Like Gloria Anzaldua says in that quote above, you'll have carved it out of yourself. And that makes me feel wonderful, and appreciative, and awed. THANK YOU for suffering, for my future enjoyment. Thank you.
"When I write it feels like I'm carving bone. It feels like I'm creating my own face, my own heart."
It should be hard, and I forget that when I read a book like Melusine and its sequels: books so lovely and weaving that it seems like they rolled off your tongue like a song. That first novel hurt me, cut into me, for so many reasons. It is beautiful and terrible - and the continuing story is so much more so knowing that it hurts you too.
But you should know that when I get my hot little hands on my copy of Corambis I will read every word with an extra slice of relish because I'll remember how those those words fought you. Like Gloria Anzaldua says in that quote above, you'll have carved it out of yourself. And that makes me feel wonderful, and appreciative, and awed. THANK YOU for suffering, for my future enjoyment. Thank you.