The One-And-Only Mary: WHO WERE YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL?

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

WHO WERE YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL?

A writer's group I once belonged to suggested we should ask ourselves this question about our main characters in our stories. The actress Scarlett Johansen put it this way: 'Adults are always underestimating kids. The person you are at 12 or 13 is the person you always are.' But let's not forget,... Sign in to see full entry.

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My horoscope recently said stop hugging the shadows, step back into the limelight. I'm shocked by how accurate it is. I've struggled with this paradox all my life. I am the good girl, the popular loner. I am the quirky girl, the glamorous independent spirit. I want, I crave attention and yet at times I must retreat, stepping back into the shadows. The only way I've found to reconcile this is to become a word actress letting my characters perform different roles on paper which is of course weaving my own needs, my own fantasies, my love, my loss and my joy into the poems and stories I write. WHY YOU SHOULD READ MY WRITING: Because it can break your heart and save your life, because it can make you feel like a hero and like a whore; because it is messy and beautiful and complicated;but mostly because it asks you to think and to imagine.

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