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the naked eye, the vulnerable brain, the aching heart<\/em> <\/p>\n

Ze is nu een dikke week dood. Haar boek over schrijven blijkt een boek over discipline en doorzettingsvermogen: elke dag 1000 woorden (heeft ze van Woolf), elke dag een ‘charming note’ naar iemand (komt later van pas), elke week 5 dollar opzij zetten zodat je kunt reizen voor je schrijven (koffie drinken met mensen naar wie je charming notes hebt gestuurd). Je mag in charming notes nooit om een gunst vragen, \u2013 just being kind, being tender, being nice, showing love. Deze ‘airplanes of affection’ zijn ‘the glue of human sweetness’. Op haar site is ze nog niet dood, je kunt Carolyn See een charming note sturen. <\/p>\n

Uit Making a literary life, advice for writers and other dreamers<\/em><\/p>\n

Literary life is a marriage, not a romance. And, as I said, some of us aren\u2019t very good at marriage; the dailiness of it gets us down. <\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

It’s a marriage, not a romance: the tension of ‘being in love’ and at the same time, somewhere in there, profoundly not giving a shit \u2014 but still taking it on faith that you must be in love. And you’re counting on that feeling to last for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

You turn your head away from your spouse during those moments when you’re out of love. But you can\u2019t look away from the blank page or, more significantly, from pages and pages of a bad first draft.<\/p>\n

It’s not that you don’t remember that you were in love but that you can’t feel it \u2014 it’s gone; it’s like looking at your wife on a hot day.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Maybe it wasn’t other people’s loneliness I was striving to alleviate but my own. And maybe I did. If you love this stuff, this writing, it’s worth your best effort, worth as much as the dizziest romance or the stormiest divorce or the most enduring marriage.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

If you can stand the dailiness of it \u2014 the continuing marriage of your inner life to all the confusion of the outside world \u2014 you can have some fun! \u2014 in the very highest and most profound sense.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

[waarom schrijven tegen elk advies in?]<\/em><\/p>\n

Because we live in a beautiful, sentient universe that yearns for you to tell the truth about it. If you love this world and this craft, they will lift you to a place you can’t begin to imagine.<\/p>\n

Leeslijst in Making a literary life, advice for writers and other dreamers<\/em><\/p>\n

Isabel Allende, The House of Spirits
\nKay Boyle, Fifty Stories
\nMichael Chabon, Wonder Boys
\nGregg Easterbrook, This Magic Moment
\nJames Ellroy, Black Dahlia
\nC. S. Forester, Beat to Quarters
\nE. M. Forster, A Room with a View, The Longest Journey
\nWilliam Gibson, Neuromancer
\nErnest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber from The Complete Stories of Ernest Hemingway
\nFrank Herbert, Dune
\nCarl Hiaasen, Native Tongue
\nHenry James, The Ambassadors
\nKay Redfield Jameson, An Unquiet Mind
\nJon Krakauer, Into Thin Air
\nAnne Lamott, Rosie, Bird by Bird
\nElmore Leonard, Cuba Libre, Touch
\nJames McBride, The Color of Water
\nIris Murdoch, Under the Net
\nAnnie Proulx, The Shipping News
\nCarolyn See, Golden Days
\nArt Spiegelman, The Complete Maus
\nRose Tremain, The Way I Found Her<\/strong> (vindt ze bijzonder)<\/em>
\nDon Westlake, any of the Dortmunder books
\nTim Winton, Cloudstreet
\nParamahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi<\/p>\n

Drie quotes<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.’<\/p>\n

‘You can go a surprisingly long time without figuring out the kind of person you are and in what direction your life is taking you.’<\/p>\n

‘As Australian Aboriginals might say, if you don’t ‘sing your world into being,’ no one else will.’ <\/p>\n

Waarom zien de huizen van schrijvende vrouwen er opgeruimd uit? Omdat het moeilijk is om het elke dag te doen, de rest van je leven: writing 1000 words a day, each day, 5 days a week for the rest of your life. Ze deed het toen haar man aan het doodgaan was. ‘It was a form of praying, I see now.’<\/p>\n

Ik ben benieuwd naar Golden Days, haar ‘inspirational novel about nuclear war’ (tip van Ursula K. Le Guin)<\/small><\/p>\n

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