Whenever I did manage to write anything it had to happen quickly, as if out of the corner of my eye. If I paid too much attention to it, it would slink away, writes Hayley Scrivenor. MWF
Somehow, I managed to talk my way into a PhD in creative writing. One day, disgusted with the novel-in-progress I’d pitched as my PhD project, I started a short story. It wasn’t much of a story. I wrote about the children of a small town coming home from school.I’d grown up in a very similar town, and every time I reached out my hand for a detail, there it was. The way that one friend’s mother would make the cordial so weak you could barely taste it.
Surely, what’s wrong with us is the wrong kind of problem for a person who wants to write. And yet, having passed through my own mini-crucible, as every writer must, I can admire other writers’ ambition. The feeling that I began my first novel from a flawed position was my personal fear, and the novel I have written is the reality. Amanda Lohrey is right: it is not the book I set out to write. But I can hold it in my hand, and it feels good.
. She discusses Frenemies with Sulari Gentill and Ellen Cregan at the State Library on September 11, at noon, for the
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