Ask the Author: Maryfrances Wagner
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Maryfrances Wagner
Middle Earth. I'd want to meet Gandolf and the Ents.
Maryfrances Wagner
I get inspired by what I observe, what I live, what I come to understand. My goal, as I would think many writers would say, is to touch the human spirit, to capture it in writing. What seems the highly personal is more the highly universal.
Maryfrances Wagner
The next book of poetry.
Maryfrances Wagner
Learn all you can about the craft of writing. There are rules and standards for any kind of writing. It's not just putting words on paper and staying attached to our words. Writing is a discipline like any other. Its skills require practice and revision. It's not as easy as many think. The writer tries to make it look that way, but it came from hours of work, revision, rethinking, and frustration. If you don't need to write, don't bother. If you want to keep writing despite all of the hurdles, learn what you need to know to be good.
Maryfrances Wagner
Writing gives a person continuous voice whether anyone reads it or not. It's a therapeutic act, a healing and releasing act whether the writer is doing academic research or getting thoughts on paper.
Maryfrances Wagner
I read. Reading poetry often inspires me. I take walks. I look back over rough drafts that still need work. I journal. I do writing exercises. I wait.
Maryfrances Wagner
When I taught high school, I used to give students who weren't as equipped to write a literary analysis to also create a diorama to express what they thought was important about a book or story or concept. What they created said something about their perceptions. A diorama is looking into a single moment that is important to its creator. This book is a collection of moments like that.
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Aug 01, 2017 09:40AM · flag