WHAT TURNS ME ON ATIMES I am interested in the way certain words string together in a seemingly impossible way to create a disarming sentence. The kind that makes you sit down and give pause. I am interested in the fantastical, as long as it is fantastic, and in poetry and science alike. I am interested in science that reads like poetry, or rather, finding the poetry in it. In every molecule. In every discovery. I am interested in history, even if it’s recreated for the reader’s pleasure, as long as it is written well enough that you slip into belief and stay there for the duration. I am interested in the quiet in back of words, in what is hidden behind what is said, the silent stubbornness of the details. I am interested in imagination, not in regurgitation. I am interested in freshness of voice and “Holy Hell, that is risky. But it works” kind of stuff. I am interested in originality, in the bold rather than same old. I am interested in poetry and fiction and stories of the heart, not in fingers counting ways I can lose five pounds. I am interested in anything that moves me, challenges me, breaks me. Not in anything that patronizes, manipulates, insults. I am interested in unique and brave, not mimicry and safety. I am interested in getting lost in words, ending up in Asia or Bali. I am interested in things that make me recognize myself or parts of myself and all of humankind at once with the sleight of a hand, with a paragraph, with a metaphor, with skilled use of adverbs. Whatever it takes, I just want to be taken there. I am interested in literature, but also in things unable to be categorized. I am interested in zero self-consciousness. I am not interested in anything so concerned with itself that it constructs a false self to sell. I am interested in risk-taking. I am interested in what speaks for itself; words so right that nothing needs to be done except nod and keep reading. This is what I am interested in as a reader, and, as a writer. I do not care for the nonsense, until it is beautiful nonsense. I don’t want the preachy or overly sentimental or the try- too-hards. I want what is pure creation or pure hard work or pure inspiration, just not what is pure contrivance.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:00:33 +0000
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