Comments on: Exploring Transition: Aryn Kyle http://www.openlooppress.org/interviews/aryn-kyle/ publishing a new kind of writer's notebook Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:11:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: editor http://www.openlooppress.org/interviews/aryn-kyle/#comment-11 editor Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:20:19 +0000 38388587#comment-11 Joy Williams is one of Aryn Kyle's very favorite writers.  Bookslut recently interviewed her about the pleasures and pressures of writing.  Why not take a peek?  "A writer is always seeing pitfalls inherent in a skill he thinks he’s already mastered. You write, you change, everything changes. The pressures on language fail to evoke the desired effect. The "gift" you feel you may have undeservedly received can't be used for everything. The dependable friend has become untrustworthy. Your ear goes, or confidence that the delivering word will appear, erodes. You get sick of fulfilling your characters, your ease with Time evaporates. Endings, beginnings, impossible. Strategies change. It never gets easier, that's for certain. Abstraction in fiction is supposed to be bad, but it can be just the struck match that illuminates. Much of a writer's work is to unexpress the expressible as well as the opposite. And the "concrete” is essential to both."  –Joy Williams http://www.bookslut.com/features/2008_11_013681.php - CMW Joy Williams is one of Aryn Kyle’s very favorite writers.  Bookslut recently interviewed her about the pleasures and pressures of writing.  Why not take a peek? 

“A writer is always seeing pitfalls inherent in a skill he thinks he’s already mastered. You write, you change, everything changes. The pressures on language fail to evoke the desired effect. The “gift” you feel you may have undeservedly received can’t be used for everything. The dependable friend has become untrustworthy. Your ear goes, or confidence that the delivering word will appear, erodes. You get sick of fulfilling your characters, your ease with Time evaporates. Endings, beginnings, impossible. Strategies change. It never gets easier, that’s for certain. Abstraction in fiction is supposed to be bad, but it can be just the struck match that illuminates. Much of a writer’s work is to unexpress the expressible as well as the opposite. And the “concrete” is essential to both.”  –Joy Williams

http://www.bookslut.com/features/2008_11_013681.php

- CMW

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