
Ursula K. Le Guin : Steering The Craft
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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Chastity
I see art mostly as a matter of self control it's like this in me there's a story that wants to be told it is my end I am its means if I can keep myself my ego my wishes and opinions my mental junk out of the way then the story will tell itself. The western conflict oriented mind so strikes the western conflictoriented mind as incredibly passive you know don't do something just sit there well that's where he's so tricky and so useful There's different ways of just sitting there that's for sureYou have exercises with each chapter and they all have great names like chastity the expository lump crowding and leaping Do you have a favorite one among the exercises? Well
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