Ask the Author: Susan I. Weinstein
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Susan I. Weinstein
2 sentences is no story, horror or otherwise. I have a great horror story that's not a tweet.
Susan I. Weinstein
After spending a year rewriting and illustrating 3 books. i am going back to a WW2 nove,, a mystery based on real blacked out v-mail letters. I also and looking at some plays I wrote years ago, that are pertinent to 2017, one was a bar play about a green card situation. it was selected by Samuel french for a one-act festival and produced at The harold Clurman theater in NY.
Susan I. Weinstein
All my worlds are fictional. I write about what others do in those worlds.
Susan I. Weinstein
It has sat there long enough I need to finalize it in a form that's meaningful for what I need to say. Sometimes you may not know what that is, until you have a draft and then go back and bring it out. My ideagrows on me.
Susan I. Weinstein
Life. Things I don't understand and can't ignore, feelings, heartbreak and visions. Sometimes you have a burning need to make sense or express your reality. Otherwise, why bother?
Susan I. Weinstein
Read philosophy, history, myth, jnonfiction that gets you thinking about life,out of your usual comfort zone. ust don't read fiction when you want to write it, unless it's classics. Took me years to "get' Henry James, was worth persisting. Otherwise, you mess up your "voice" and tend to compare before you have anything. Remember, you aren't so important, or your piece, you are an instrument a channel for reality. You serve a purpose beyond immediate desire for money, praise, whatever.
Susan I. Weinstein
You can write. I also paint and think of both as like people who play jazz. They just are full of some emotion and let it go. And you can lose yourself for hours and return with something that may be meaningful.
Susan I. Weinstein
Free write. Peter Elbow's early book on writing was the only one I ever found helpful. Best if they still have their workshops. The idea is to separate your writer from your editor, right and left brains and just free write off the top of your head. Leave it then go back with your editor. As a professional pr writer for decades, writing is a job, so I can't afford block. But to brainstorm with yourself, this method work's well.
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