Ask the Author: Lorie Adair
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Lorie Adair
I think the best thing is when someone connects emotionally to what I have written. When someone indicates they were deeply moved by my words, I am grateful and honored. The point of art is to move the heart in some way, in my opinion. Of course I wish to be artful, to work the language beautifully but to touch the heart of a reader is much more important to me.
Lorie Adair
Believe in yourself; begin to think of yourself as a writer. When I began taking myself seriously as a writer, others began taking me seriously as well. Be ambitious and submit like crazy.
Lorie Adair
Goodness, how to answer this? Sometimes it's a dream image while other times an insistent voice that murmurs in my ear. Sometimes it's an event from childhood and I run with it thinking 'what if it happened this way...' I sit each day to write; something is bound to come up while sitting in my chair before my cluttered desk.
Lorie Adair
I'm currently working on a series of linked stories that are associated with a Gothic house where I spent three formative years of my childhood. Each woman has been damaged in someway but as with most women I know, there is an abiding resilience. I'm also thinking about writing another book in which Shi'yazhi from Spider Woman's Loom is the main protagonist.
Lorie Adair
I had a series of dreams that indicated I would move from my home-state of New Hampshire to live and teach on the Navajo reservation in the Four Corners region (Red Mesa). Within months, I had a lucid dream of a Navajo weaver on the top of what is called Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly. It was very intense and when I awoke, I began writing about her life. I could hear her voice distinctly throughout every draft, revision and phase of the story. I feel honored that Noni Lee chose me to witness and hear her life's story.
Lorie Adair
I've found book resources like Robert Olen Butler's book From Where You Dream incredibly helpful for working through a blocked phase. I also turn to my journal a good deal to work out the kinks. Susan Taylor Chehak urges her friends and students to read broadly and deeply so that is a resource as well because for me it's less block and more "locked" i.e. not shifting smoothly from one gear to the next if you will. I've also found crafting, painting, yoga, intense exercise, and skiing to really help--giving the 'monkey mind' something else to fixate on so the rest of the brain can freely work its magic.
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