Ask the Author: Jeannie Burt
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Jeannie Burt
I think this is a great question; it really made me think. Thanks.
I guess I'd have to say the my favorites are the two couples in Stegner's "Crossing to Safety".
Here's a quote from The Washington Post's Howard Frank Mosher that describes my feelings perfectly: "[Crossing to Safety] is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage."
The telling of the reunion of the two couples in the novel is really the telling of life and of love. Wonderful.
I guess I'd have to say the my favorites are the two couples in Stegner's "Crossing to Safety".
Here's a quote from The Washington Post's Howard Frank Mosher that describes my feelings perfectly: "[Crossing to Safety] is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage."
The telling of the reunion of the two couples in the novel is really the telling of life and of love. Wonderful.
Jeannie Burt
I don't seem to have block, really. It's more like discouragement. I get discouraged a lot. Maybe it's just tired, I don't know. But when that happens, the voices go off in my head telling me my writing sucks, my characters are crap and nothing is working. It's about that time I usually try to go away –to the mountains mostly-- to take hikes, stay somewhere that feeds me a good meal, and stare at my navel. I usually truly give up on writing and make peace with the idea I won't ever write again. It's liberating to come to that place, and to think I will never write again.
But I don't know what happens, when I get there to that kind of surrendering, the ideas just start bombarding me, and I'm fresh and eager again. I know this, though: nothing happens if I am simply going through the act of giving up, just so I can get inspired. THAT doesn't work at all. I think our spirits know when we're being real.
But I don't know what happens, when I get there to that kind of surrendering, the ideas just start bombarding me, and I'm fresh and eager again. I know this, though: nothing happens if I am simply going through the act of giving up, just so I can get inspired. THAT doesn't work at all. I think our spirits know when we're being real.
Jeannie Burt
I get to say what I want to say, whether anyone agrees with me, or not. It's scary, but it's fun!
Jeannie Burt
Take some classes. Read tons. And write, write, write!
Jeannie Burt
Two novels which have to do with the life and times of the American artist Robert Henri in the early Twentieth Century. In early July, I finished the last draft of one... of those two novels. YAY!!!
Jeannie Burt
I have no idea. I think it came in my DNA the moment I was born. I have always read a lot, and I think I always wanted to do what writers did. Long ago, I hid one-page, hand-written-o- tablet-paper short stories in my diary, back in the day we all wrote in diaries. Not long ago, I found one of those diaries, and a one-page science-fiction story drifted out of it. It was original, that was for sure, but I had to laugh at its naivete and how it must have seemed like such a big deal when I wrote it.
Jeannie Burt
It's sort of convoluted. A young man I knew and his family were struggling with his addiction to drugs. I sat down and wrote out my anguish over their adversity and in doing that I wondered how a young person would get into that kind of trouble and how a family would deal with it. “When Patty Went Away” is total fiction, not based on the young man at all.
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