Thinking about why I do what I do

 Q: Give us your writing manifesto.

 

-from Susan

 

“Manifesto: a public declaration of policy and aims.”

 

 

(Who asks a question like that?) For writers, I guess it means what we’re committed to in our work and how we aim to achieve it? In an effort not to sound pompous or self-aggrandizing, I guess what I want is to put on paper the kinds of stories about people that show them in three dimensions, often under stress. 

 

We are all so complex, a mix of high and less high ideals, strong and weak in our ...