No, not the actual Paris Review. MidLifeBloggers version of it, which focuses on those parts of the Interview that we remember the most: the what do you write with and when do you write questions.
I got the idea for this after reading some of Sarah Piazza’s postings on her new blog. She used to be a momblogger at Slouching Past 40; now’s she Sarah Piazza posting occasional essays and poetry. She is, in a word, damn good. Okay, that’s two words. When I read her work, I always wonder–how did she do that? Her words move me personally, but her writing makes me itch to sit down with her and talk about process. The nuts and bolts, nitty gritty that we as writers go through to produce our work. I said something like that in a response to her comment on my Defining the Brand post–and then I thought–why don’t we all talk about how we do what we do. So please, weigh in: you can do it short(ish) in a comment or go long in a post on your blog that we can link to.
Do tell: what time of day do you write and why? do you start in pen/pencil and move to computer, or the other way around. If you’re writing on paper, must it be a certain kind? color? weight? How do you do what you do? Maybe this exercise can be the start of the MidLifeBloggers Interviews. A writers workshop, after all, can’t be all prompts and how-to’s. Wouldn’t it work best if we actually communicated with each other?
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