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August 15th

10/6/2017

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"Anais Nin said: 'It is the function of art to renew our perception.  What we are familiar with we cease to see.  The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."  How does this statement relate to your writing goals?"

I think for me, maybe, writing is a way of joining people in old ways - revealing truths we all already knew in our stomach, or our throats, when we cry.

It is already there, but we don't notice it if we aren't living it.  And if we are living it, this thing, because it is forgotten by most people, or maybe denied or secret, we feel alone.  That's what I want to stop - want to help with.

I hope what my writing does is goes under your bed or into the back of your cupboard - shines a very focused torch and says, "Look, see that dead woodlouse, or that old button that fell off your shirt?  I've got those too."  (I speak metaphorically, of course.)

And not just negative (although I am drawn more to that) - but the good too; the little gleams that make us all smile.  (I mean I love buttons.  Free buttons.  Win!!)

But yes, for me it is not shaking up and giving a new meaning particularly - it is more re-revealing the very, very old.  (Archaeology.)
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