“I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that if you are lucky enough to be living a pretty sedate life ,as I am, you've got nothing worthy of writing about, that you're incapable of making a reader's gut wrench.Frankly, that's what makes readers nervous, the sorcery of you or me or any good fiction writer making up characters who feel like real people, of telling a story that feels true but isn't.” PeopleWritingRealEnoughCharacterDreamTearsLuckyWorthyNervousGutsDislikeMaking Up Author:Leslie Pietrzyk
“Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of wrestling meaning from the chaos of life. Consequently, when I choose to write overtly or even secretly about my real life, it's always something difficult and complicated that I'm longing to make sense of.” WritingTryingRealDifficultLongingChaosComplicatedReal LifeMy WayMake SenseWrestlingExploring Author:Leslie Pietrzyk
“Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the dark place. Our humiliations and secret fears and deepest anxieties, those times where we were at our worst: that's the best material.” ThinkingWritingDarkSecretWorstAnxietyScareHumiliation Author:Leslie Pietrzyk
