Lives

[pjthompson]

 

Random quote of the day:

 

“Would you not like to try all sorts of lives—one is so very small—but that is the satisfaction of writing—one can impersonate so many people.”

 

—Katherine Mansfield, letter to Sylvia Payne, 24 April 1906

 

 

 

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Comments

[notasupervillain]

That's a funny comment, in that every character I write is always some version of myself. I try not to, but when I get to the heart of the story it's always a confessional.

I know it's cliche, but the writing quote I relate to most is the Ernest Hemingway — 'There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'

[pjthompson]

Everybody's different. The only thing that matters is what works for you.

I'm more of a method actor when it comes to characters. I inhabit their shells when I'm doing it right, so I understand what she's saying. But even in method acting they teach you to find one thing in any character that you personally can relate to so in a way I'm using aspects of myself, too. So I suppose it's more like imagining what my life would have been like if I'd been born in another time, place, body, sex, etc.