Writing Forum

“I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

I do feel that way.

“Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

And I feel blessed to read Mr. Wild and Kat Hawthorne and appreciate how Matt can agree with me and then not. An encouraging leader, a diplomat both natural and graceful.

But what I want to say to you, Eliot, is that finding a voice is not a research project. I know you dabble, but shouldn't you rather wrestle with the work of telling tales? It is not just skill in writing, or fabricating "a voice," it is being able to speak to the heart of a person you've never met. It is imagining something that has never been, communicating it, and changing someone as they think, "that is exactly it." You can do this if you still have time.

“So you’re saying that I could die at any moment!” “Yes. And this is different from your life yesterday in what way?” Umegat cocked his head in dry inquiry.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion