Ask the Author: Christina Waters
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Christina Waters
Getting to "talk" out my ideas, impressions, arguments about whatever I am interested in. In terms of book writing, the initial pleasure lies in being able to watch a brand new realm emerge from my consciousness alone. Yes, it is a control trip! Faulkner said that. But then a deeper pleasure sets in - interlacing the elements of that brand new world, watching how they jell (or don't) and then plunging into repair work. All of which sets up delicious and endless challenges. Once in a while, it all works and then the best thing is smiling at the result.
Christina Waters
Frankly, I turn to the other side of the brain and reach for a paintbrush. Or I leave the house and take a very brisk walk up into the meadows and forests overlooking the ocean. While walking, I can work out trouble spots and rethink beginnings, and endings.
I keep a work-table next to my computer, all set up with inks and paints and ready to approach whenever I need to work out frustration on some abstract watercolors that I love to make. Walk or paint. It never fails to loosen up the literate side of my brain.
I keep a work-table next to my computer, all set up with inks and paints and ready to approach whenever I need to work out frustration on some abstract watercolors that I love to make. Walk or paint. It never fails to loosen up the literate side of my brain.
Christina Waters
Writing is hard work. Don't be afraid to dive into it.
Write every day. Something. A journal, a letter, a review - but write!
Write every day. Something. A journal, a letter, a review - but write!
Christina Waters
I'm working on a book of short saga poems that will capture some of the texture of everyday consciousness, interwoven with memoirs of defining adventures and travels.
I'm also finishing up the plotting of two books involving mystery, sex, and fine art - each set in a colorful European city.
I'm also finishing up the plotting of two books involving mystery, sex, and fine art - each set in a colorful European city.
Christina Waters
I sit for a moment and try to conjure up the exact place and time that I'm remembering, and that I hope to reawaken for the reader. And in almost every case the moment comes back to me. I write as if I am "seeing" the place for the first time, striving for absolute vivacity and intensity of description.
Christina Waters
I was inspired both by some of my favorite thinkers, like phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty, and by my own adventures over the past three decades.
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