Ask the Author: Lynn Bushell
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Lynn Bushell
If only plots dropped into one's lap ready-made like that. They don't, but you mine your own life for material all the time, even when you think you're inventing. The same themes tend to recur until you've either worked them out of your system or resolved them.
Lynn Bushell
I work through it. There's no other way. I know that although I may spend 3 hours at my desk and achieve very little, if I'm not there, I won't achieve anything.
Lynn Bushell
For me it's that elusive pleasure you get when you've written a sentence that says exactly what you want it to say. It happens perhaps twice a year, but when it does, there's nothing quite like it.
Lynn Bushell
I think tenacity is the most important asset for an artist of any kind.
Never give up.
Never give up.
Lynn Bushell
I'm currently working on a book about the artist Stanley Spencer and his obsession with Patricia Preece, a gay vamp who continued living with her partner, Dorothy Hepworth, even after Stanley had divorced his wife to marry her. Today it would be called 'romance fraud', although as I've elected to tell the story from her point of view, I may feel differently about it by the time I've finished.
Lynn Bushell
I was trained as a painter and in a sense that's still the day job. I worked as a free-lance journalist to support my work as an artist and gradually the writing took over. It's not so much a question of inspiration as a feeling of dissatisfaction if more than a few days pass without my having written anything.
Lynn Bushell
I'd read that Bonnard had a model, Renee Montchaty, who'd committed suicide in 1922 after a trip to Rome with him. I couldn't find any other information but at the end of his life Bonnard had picked up on a painting 'The Women in the Garden' which he'd started after Renee's death and there she was, together with his long-time partner, Marthe. I felt hers was a story waiting to be told and since no one else had told it, I did.
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