Ask the Author: Christie Williamson
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Christie Williamson
Ruthlessly. With absolutely no help whatsoever from any algorithm.
Christie Williamson
The best thing about being a writer is that moment when you have your pen in your hand and it knows better than you do where your piece is going; those times where your fingers and your mind are struggling to keep up with one another. Recognition, reviews, all those big glitzy moments are great but it's the act of writing itself which is the greatest reward.
Christie Williamson
Read, read, read; write, write, write. If you write something you never use for anything then guess what, you're in great company. Be stubborn as all hell, and keep your mind open.
Christie Williamson
As I was finishing the MS for Doors tae Naewye I became heavily interested in poems weaving Shaetlan with other languages - I like the idea of applying Scandinavian languages to this, but have far more (though slender even there) grasp of romance languages, and there's something about the tension created by that linguistic distance I find exciting.
More lately, I've been writing Petrarchan sonnets, which really isn't like me, and that's one of the exciting things about writing - it takes you places you couldn't predict.
More lately, I've been writing Petrarchan sonnets, which really isn't like me, and that's one of the exciting things about writing - it takes you places you couldn't predict.
Christie Williamson
I find my writer self responds best to gentle coaxing. That said, writers write as the saying goes, and sometimes there's no substitute for picking up a pen or a pencil and getting some bits of paper dirty.
Christie Williamson
After my first collection I started playing with different ways of using space on the page. I'd spent over a decade writing quite a lot, mostly short line poems, and yearned to know how things felt on the other side of the page.
Beyond that, Doors Tae Naewye is a book of broken sequences, contained by a sequence I made for 'Fourfold', an invitation only periodical I had the good luck to be part of in 2012.
Beyond that, Doors Tae Naewye is a book of broken sequences, contained by a sequence I made for 'Fourfold', an invitation only periodical I had the good luck to be part of in 2012.
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