Writing Above Your Head

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In the latest Glimmer Train Bulletin, Clayton
Luz has a wonderful piece about
"writing above your head," advice that he first heard from Richard Ford. Here's a
snippet of what Clayton says:

Sometimes we have to let things we experience age
a while in our souls before they ripen into a knowing. I'm with Henry James, who wrote
"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility,
a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of
consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."




In other words, I had to live a sum of life before Ford's meaning reached my consciousness.



I understand now. My short story "When the Wind Blows the Water Grey" represents my
first published fiction. And it got that way because I finally wrote above my head,
I believe. What does that mean? …

Click here to read
the full piece by Luz.




Or: head to the full bulletin from Glimmer
Train.

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