Ask the Author: Lis Anna-Langston
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Lis Anna-Langston
Julia,
I sent an email to the above address but never got a reply. I think you may not have received it! I can resend. Just let me know.
I sent an email to the above address but never got a reply. I think you may not have received it! I can resend. Just let me know.
Lis Anna-Langston
Mark,
I just saw this question for some reason even though you sent it more than a month and a half ago. I would be happy to pop over to Amazon and leave the review. Loved You Wish! If you ever need anything let me know.
Best, Lis
I just saw this question for some reason even though you sent it more than a month and a half ago. I would be happy to pop over to Amazon and leave the review. Loved You Wish! If you ever need anything let me know.
Best, Lis
Lis Anna-Langston
I'd go back to West Egg and save Jay Gatsby.
Lis Anna-Langston
Yes! Yes I will!!
Lis Anna-Langston
Ha. This is SUCH a good question and one that no one in a forum or real life has ever asked me. I have many favorite fictional couples. Jay Gatsby & Daisy, Tyler Durden and Marla Singer, Tomas and Sabine from the Unbearable Lightness of Being, Rodolfo & Mimi from La Boheme . The thought that Jay Gatsby built an entire empire just to get Daisy to notice him always stuck me as tragic but incredibly romantic. He built his entire world around her, for her. Tyler & Marla are an incredible train wreck, a threesome of sorts because the narrator is involved. A brilliant depiction of two people coming apart at the seams together. More recently, I became enthralled with the relationship between Major John André and Peggy Shippen on Turn. If you research the Revolutionary War you find find actual drawings of Andre hanged. In the series it is such an urgent, longing love affair.
Those are my romantic couples but, of course, there are also the odd couples like Butch and the little boy in A Perfect World, Walter White & Jesse, Shug Avery & Celie and Ruth and Iggie from Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. These women who forged a life from the world around them, with all of it's obstacles and heartache. I will always remember Ruth saying: Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you: for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge: your people shall be my people.
Such powerful writing. Such powerful emotions.
Those are my romantic couples but, of course, there are also the odd couples like Butch and the little boy in A Perfect World, Walter White & Jesse, Shug Avery & Celie and Ruth and Iggie from Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. These women who forged a life from the world around them, with all of it's obstacles and heartache. I will always remember Ruth saying: Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you: for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge: your people shall be my people.
Such powerful writing. Such powerful emotions.
Lis Anna-Langston
When I sit down to read a book or watch a film and it is so good that I am totally immersed in that world and I love every second of it and I am hanging on every scene, even if it is a quiet drama, and I remember every tiny detail and the world comes alive, I am in awe. The best part of being a writer is being able to do that for someone else.
Lis Anna-Langston
Really get into the stories you're writing, dig deep, write things that wow you and disturb you and keep you up at night. Anyone can construct a paragraph.
Lis Anna-Langston
Well, I think that life is inspiration. One time I heard Steve Jobs say, "Always be creating." A friend of mine, who is a painter, said, "That sounds exhausting." Maybe to some it is but to me it is inspiring. Always be creating. In life, in love, in your work, in the way you make dinner.
Once I find the initial story, that glimmer of a person or a line or a situation, then that alone is inspiring. I want to go there with those characters and have that experience. I studied at a Creative and Performing Arts school. I was in theater for that time and then later continued to study acting for years. I especially loved Method Acting. It's a love it or hate it process. I love it. I noticed that my writing took on a sort of Method Writing process and I enjoy it. I find that process inspiring.
Some writers will say they are inspired by a cup of tea or reading poetry and while I enjoy those things I don't find them particularly inspirational. Rolling up my sleeves and getting dirty is inspirational to me.
Once I find the initial story, that glimmer of a person or a line or a situation, then that alone is inspiring. I want to go there with those characters and have that experience. I studied at a Creative and Performing Arts school. I was in theater for that time and then later continued to study acting for years. I especially loved Method Acting. It's a love it or hate it process. I love it. I noticed that my writing took on a sort of Method Writing process and I enjoy it. I find that process inspiring.
Some writers will say they are inspired by a cup of tea or reading poetry and while I enjoy those things I don't find them particularly inspirational. Rolling up my sleeves and getting dirty is inspirational to me.
Lis Anna-Langston
This one came to me in scenes over the course of a few days. A little girl. Afraid of the dark. Has to go into the night, in-between rows of corn, to save someone. I like to write on huge sketchpads. Like the 11X17 ones and so I wrote these scenes out on the sketch paper. Of course, it morphed into a story and plot that is vibrant and not as general.
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