"And I think having a broken past, having so many fragments, leads to broken writing. I think that's the work we do all our lives: bringing together the fragments and trying to make some cohesive wholeness out of them." --Diane Glancy (AWP Writers Chronicle. Sept. 2004)
Photo of Diane Glancy from Writers Chronicle.
I like what Glancy says about the writing process. It describes much of my own experience with writing. The process of writing isn't so different than the way we live our lives, ultimately. We need every now and then to knit up the loose ends of our lives before they unravel. We need every now and then to make wholeness our goal.
When we write, we weave the loose ends of our stories together into one fabric. The writing may seem broken and splintered at first. You may have to discover how the pieces should fit, what kind of pattern wants to be created. It is a process that can take a long time.
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All I can add here is an amen!
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