Pardon me while I swoon over Eimar McBride. Q: You mentioned plot. I’ve recently graduated from an MFA program here in the United States, and in the graduate fiction world, plot seems to be a particularly tricky word right now for young writers—they’re always skeptical to plot or clinging to plot. There’s a lot of charge to the word. Does that have the same slipperiness for you? EM: No, it’s not a problematic thing for me because I’m not interested in it. I know what kind of writer I am, and that’s not where my talent lies, and I enjoy that when other people do it well, so you know, for me as a reader, I can enjoy it, but as a writer it doesn’t interest me. But story does interest me, and that is something that is quite different. And people interest me, and their lives, and what happens to them in their lives, and that is often not enhanced by intricate plots.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 04:58:42 +0000
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