That's so great -- all praise to your joy in your belly in its various roles, including this one, holding protecting your baby. Such an amazing thing
The thing is, I have a vocation, passion and a gift for fiction and poetry. I struggle with them, but love writing them more than I love any other kind of work. Other people could do a very powerful job in examining these connections. But nobody else could write my novels and poems. I could write this book someday as a political commitment or as part of earning a living. But starting it made me realize that writing fiction let me explore complicated things with more power and in a way that feels more natural and satisfying to me than creating an empassioned, strongly argued work of nonfiction, no matter how aching the need.
Here's a link to an article I wrote a few years ago that refers to some aspects of this stuff, though.
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Date: 2004-03-17 01:50 pm (UTC)The thing is, I have a vocation, passion and a gift for fiction and poetry. I struggle with them, but love writing them more than I love any other kind of work. Other people could do a very powerful job in examining these connections. But nobody else could write my novels and poems. I could write this book someday as a political commitment or as part of earning a living. But starting it made me realize that writing fiction let me explore complicated things with more power and in a way that feels more natural and satisfying to me than creating an empassioned, strongly argued work of nonfiction, no matter how aching the need.
Here's a link to an article I wrote a few years ago that refers to some aspects of this stuff, though.
Resisting Fat Hatred (http://www.resistingfathatred.netfirms.com/article.htm)