![]() ![]() ![]() This emotional aspect of writing is one of the many reasons good, thorough, even brutal, editing is so important. I’m welling up just looking at the line now, overcome by all that it references. The latest line, from SISTERS, to set me off was: In the midst of great loss, the newness of a baby helps. It all flows fast and organically out of me and I have no choice but to go where my heart takes me. The first one I can maybe manage, at least while marketing, but certainly not while writing. And we should write to a ‘market’ and design covers to a genre stereotype. Like, when we market our books, they should be regarded as ‘products’ and we should not be emotionally attached to them. If the writer isn’t fully immersed, how can the reader ever be? Rhododendron flowers on the pink bench Marketingīut then, I read other things, sensible things really. It’s no wonder I’m sometimes dehydrated!Įmotive writing is, just that. And even crying while thinking about writing, as the scenes, both happy and sad, play out in my mind. ![]()
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