Ask the Author: Ann Harleman
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Ann Harleman
I'm a longtime lover of Italy--the culture, the landscape, the language, the food (oh...the food!), the people--but I can't afford to go there very often. So I decided to go there every day in my imagination.
Ann Harleman
By reading the work of others. As the late great Ursula K. LeGuin said, "Other writers are not your competition; they are your sustenance."
Ann Harleman
I have a new novel coming out in January 2020. To distract myself from the anxiety this entails, I'm working on a third collection of stories, some actually true.
Ann Harleman
Never never never never give up!
Ann Harleman
Making something. Putting something into the world that otherwise wouldn't be there. And (hopefully) something that helps someone else to make sense of her/his experience, or find comfort, or companionship.
Ann Harleman
I get my seat in contact with the seat of my chair. Then I take my file of images that have spoken to me over the years, choose one without looking, and just start writing about it. Typing, typing, typing. What can I see, smell, touch, taste, hear? What's in motion?
One of my published novels actually started in this very way!
One of my published novels actually started in this very way!
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