tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14898842.post112299589845507262..comments2023-10-15T19:53:19.481-04:00Comments on Grammar Piano: BacktrackingLee Houckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12577246158079331079noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14898842.post-1123076892266581782005-08-03T09:48:00.000-04:002005-08-03T09:48:00.000-04:00You're absolutely right, the act of writing is in ...You're absolutely right, the act of writing is in itself taking a stand. In fact, one of the reasons I'm drawn to fiction is the ability to make truth out of incongruous events, to create histories that manifest into new ideas, and to create that surprise in the reader that is sometimes (though not always) missing from journalism.<BR/><BR/>But the forces are still at work here: juggling your work with your relationships with your partner and family and friends, New York economic immobility, your own artistic doubts, not to mention (and I don't think this is a leap here) family history of depression, alcoholism and potential bipolar disorder.<BR/><BR/>These aren't crutches; that isn't what I'm trying to say. You just sit down at your computer a little bit every evening and try to get out of your own way.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the encouragement.Lee Houckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12577246158079331079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14898842.post-1123039680652227082005-08-02T23:28:00.000-04:002005-08-02T23:28:00.000-04:00I am not one of those people who believe that writ...I am not one of those people who believe that writers must experience everything that we write about. But in a strange way, I think we write about what has happened to us anyway.<BR/><BR/>I try to write about things that scare me, to write about them in order to figure out just exactly what I think about them. And someone, I forget who, said that "That which we are most afraid of has already happened to us."<BR/><BR/>And I find that no matter what I write, I am essentially writing about the same ideas. <BR/> <BR/>So perhaps, we're all just standing in the crossroads. Forever.Lee Houckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12577246158079331079noreply@blogger.com