Ask the Author: Erin Pringle
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Erin Pringle
Having five hours ahead of me that aren't scheduled and someone has taken the child to do important things he'll enjoy.
Erin Pringle
Enjoy the act of reading itself.
Erin Pringle
Adding to the discussion that all the writers have joined in the past thousands of years. Listening and responding in kind.
Erin Pringle
I don't have much experience with this. My main frustration is finding the space and time to think and write. The words always come. I do understand the concept of writer's block, as I experience runner's block--wanting to run but finding it against my desire to exit the house in running shoes. But writing, no, for me that's like a punctured vein in a good arm, waiting for the assisting nurse to attach the blood bag and let it go.
Erin Pringle
A man sat at his desk, wishing for war. Hearing him, the war opened its mouth as wide as the world.
Erin Pringle
It would be in the land where Astrid Lindgren sets The Brothers Lionheart. I've always found it to be a wonderful place and one I think about often, years and years after reading it as a child.
Erin Pringle
I'm quite late at answering this, but regarding this summer, I keep a list of what I've read rather than what I wish to read--that way I don't read in guilt. I've finished Rajia Hassib's novel A Pure Heart and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. I've been slowly working my way through a collection of Ann Beattie stories--not because they read slowly but they're full stories that fill the mind and create a need for the aftertaste.
Erin Pringle
My sister. Not only her life but also her death. Her death has turned all memory of her life into a mystery.
Erin Pringle
Explore as many options for expressing your ideas before deciding that writing is your genre. It would be much better to realize that you are better at expressing the world through dance (or photography or painting or speeches or philosophical dialogue) than to decide it's fiction, say, or poetry, only because that's all you've ever known or because of some notion that it would provide a living.
Erin Pringle
Unless I'm experiencing a major sorrow or change in my non-writing life, I don't experience writer's block because I don't have the time or luxury for it.
Erin Pringle
The act of writing, the act of thinking, the state of everything when writing (or revising).
Erin Pringle
A novel. It's set in a small town in the present-day Midwest, and this town is the site of an annual travelling circus.
Erin Pringle
I don't have to seek inspiration, but I feel especially inspired when I look at photography and art since these were important to my father and my experience growing up. Interacting with the visual arts always makes my mind move in ways that elate me and make me want to sit down and respond.
Erin Pringle
I likely got the idea for the novel I'm writing on the day, very long ago, when my sister took me to the travelling circus. But I've become especially interested recently because of my interest in Disability Studies and the way it has altered the way I think about the world, the people in it, and history.
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