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Thursday, 14 December 2017

The Write Advice 102: MARY RAKOW



My first mentor said, Write toward the pain.  And write something you could read to a dying person.  These are harsh, useful measures and they stay valid… On a more technical level I learn a lot by walking around the city.  It just happens.  You’re walking along minding your own business and you see in the Max Mara window something entirely new.  A mannequin wearing wheat colored menswear socks with blush suede pumps!  You stare at it for an hour, that friction, that juxtaposition, and you go home and write better dialogue because you’ve seen good dialogue with your eyes.

Q&A interview [2015]


 

Use the link below to read more about North American writer MARY RAKOW and her novel This Is Why I Came, published by the Counterpoint Press in December 2015:

 

http://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/this-is-why-i-came/

 

 

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The Write Advice 071: TONI MORRISON

 
The Write Advice 026: GINA BERRIAULT

 
The Write Advice 041: MAYA ANGELOU

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