Lillian Hellman said, ‘If you hope to be any good, nothing you write will ever come out as you first hoped.’ It is true and if you are truly lucky it will happen to you.
For example: In the play script version of Women Outside the Walls, the story ends with Joe dying on a cold prison floor. And later, this was where I had planned for the novel to end too. IF I had not been working closely with a woman who had ‘stood by her man’ for 15 years while he was in prison. Shortly after he was paroled,
her son received 13 years for manslaughter. She had been there, done that… times two! After SK (the woman outside the real prison walls) read the last pages, she looked up and asked: “What happened to Charlie? To Alma?”
‘Huh?’ I replied. Did someone actually care about these two antagonists? As it turns out, yes they did. Charlie and Alma, in spite of their wrong doings, their narrow beliefs, and their ignorance were endearing and readers really cared.
I’ve said it before, be open as a writer.
“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn’t try to write fiction.
It’s not a grand enough job for you.” ~~ Flannery O’Connor
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ~~ Pablo Picasso
“Be courageous and try to write in a way that scares you a little.” ~~ Holley Gerth
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