Hello, everyone! Thanks for bearing with me through the hiatus last week. The month of May was crazy busy for me, both in work and personal life, and I just didn’t have time to keep up with my blog-writing schedule.
But today I’m back with an interview I think you’ll enjoy! I was asked by E. M. Sherwood Foster if I wanted to do an interview about writing, and how could I say no? I was even more ecstatic about it when I saw the questions; she came up with some really amazing ones!
Let me give you just a small taste:
1) What does writing mean to you? What do you think the purpose of writing is?
Ah, starting off with the most difficult questions, I see! 🙂 I think that writing is seeing the world as what it could be, perhaps even what it should be—using imagination and creativity to teach real-world truths that otherwise can’t (or won’t) be digested. This, I believe, is the purpose of writing. Writers are entertainers, yes, but most of all teachers. A story that simply entertains is forgettable at worst and a mind-numbing distraction at best, but a story that means something, a story that teaches us to see the world, other people, or ourselves just a bit differently… That’s a story with the potential to change the world.
An interview by E. M. Sherwood Foster
And that’s just the first of eight great questions, all about writing! I had so much fun doing this interview and I hope you’ll find it insightful and inspiring. You can read the full interview here:
by E. M. Sherwood Foster
Happy writing!
-E.J.
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interesting answer! I think writing is exploring what it means to be human and how we do that well and what that means
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I love that answer! 😄
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