No, Women Like You Don't Write. They

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When You Write, It’s Like Braiding Your Hair. Taking A Handful Of Coarse Unruly Strands And Attempting To Bring Them Unity. Your Fingers Have Still Not Perfected The Task. Some Of The Braids Are Long, Others Are Short. Some Are Thick, Others Are Thin. Some Are Heavy. Others Are Light. Like The Diverse Women Of Your Family. Those Whose Fables And Metaphors, Whose Similes And Soliloquies, Whose Diction And Je Ne Sais Quoi Daily Slip Into Your Survival Soup, By Way Of Their Fingers.

I Remember Reading An Interview With A Writer Who Said That In Nonfiction If You Have One Lie It Sort Of Messes It Up. But In Fiction The Real Details Give You So Much More Credibility, Because People Do So Much Research Just To Write Fiction. In Fiction You're Trying To Recreate Something Lifelike.

To Be Able To Create You Have To Have Peace Of Mind On Some Level.

My Models Were Oral, Were Storytellers. Like My Grandmothers And My Aunts. It's True, A Lot Of People In My Life Were Not Literate In A Formal Sense, But They Were Storytellers. So I Had This Experience Of Just Watching Somebody Spin A Tale Off The Top Of Her Head. I Loved That.