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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