Ask the Author: Margo Lane
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Margo Lane
I'm an English teacher at heart, so I will of course say the thing that all English teachers tell their students, which is that we are all writers. I'm not a professional writer. I don't write full-time or anywhere near that. I find time to write when I can, but the majority of my time is taken up with teaching my high school students. I love my job more than pretty much anything, but it is incredibly time-consuming, and it can be difficult to make the time for anything outside of school. The best thing about being a writer, if I were to tell my students, would be the ability to express yourself, to see within your soul and use words to portray what you are feeling. Even if your work is fiction, there is a part of you that lives in the works that you create and that is the magic.
Margo Lane
So far, my only published work has been poetry, but I've tried to write a lot of different genres and hope to one day share some fiction with the world as well. In terms of my poetry, however, my main inspiration is my own life. It has to be, because the poems are about me--my thoughts, my hopes, my dreams, my fears, my anxieties. I also find I am more inspired to write during more intense emotional moments. It's why I don't write poetry just for Instagram (at least not yet!) and why my poems vary so much in length and structure.
Margo Lane
I started writing my most recent (and currently only!) book on accident, just a few months before a global pandemic. I had been writing poetry in the notes section of my phone for a few months and was using it as a way to channel some of my thoughts and emotions regarding, well, everything. It was a few months before my 29th birthday that I realized I wanted to frame these poems in a real collection. I wanted the poems to act a sort of chronological journey. They were already titled by the date I had written then, so I just kept writing. I don't know if I found the idea or if the idea found me, but I'm really glad it happened, regardless.
Margo Lane
I've been working on my second poetry collection, jokingly and then later very seriously titled "Depressing Ass Shit" since December 2020. As of early August 2021, I'm about halfway through the planned number of poems. The collection is a sequel of sorts to my first collection, "29 Without You," and will expand on some of the main ideas and themes I discuss in that collection. It is also a bit more humorous, which was something I missed in my first collection.
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