Ask the Author: Marilyn Chase
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Marilyn Chase
Sometimes sitting with your notes, revisiting your original spark of curiosity, and returning to what motivated you at the beginning will revive your voice.
Marilyn Chase
It's finding that project that won't let you go, plunging into it, and experiencing that feeling divers get, of "rapture of the deep."
Marilyn Chase
Read widely and deeply of the works by writers who inspire you! For me, it's writers like Pat Barker, Louise Erdrich and Hilary Mantel. When you find the project that you must do, go deep and give it your all.
Marilyn Chase
Trying to introduce as many new readers as I can to the world of Ruth Asawa.
Marilyn Chase
When I begin the "hear" the voice of my subject, and feel that I have begun to understand her joys and sorrows, her artistic goals and her ideals.
Marilyn Chase
I'm a reporter, so I was fascinated to learn the artist Ruth Asawa gave her archives to my alma mater Stanford University. I started reading them, and 18 months later, I had read through 275 boxes worth of documents and was fully engaged with the life of my new hero!
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