Comments on: “Why We Write” #18: Dorothy Gale

By: Kate the Great

Kate the Great — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:08:27 +0000

I love this. You’re obviously feeling this out. It’s not a definite answer or a permanent answer. This post is a work-in-progress; it’ll change over time the more you think about it.

I also love it because it’s something we all have an answer for, and my answer is different than yours.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:56:26 +0000

Always trying to find ways to make others’ pain benefit the Whatsit, Dave?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:19:41 +0000

I see a regular contributor’s slot at TGW coming on.

By: Tim Wager

Tim Wager — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:32:46 +0000

WW, I really enjoyed this. I would love to feel this way more consistently about writing. As it is, it’s often agony. There are moments when writing feels like you describe it here, and I treasure them. Maybe if I did it more consistently it would get better. Wait! I sense a resolution coming on.

By: lane

lane — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:14:18 +0000

very interesting.

In an odd coincidence I started reading an essay on Matisse on New Years Eve day, the artist’s birthday.

In it he is quoted a having discovered in a little box of paints a world of absolute freedom where he was totally alone.

Matisse was fully 20 when he discovered this, a trained law clerk, his decision to become an artist was deeply disappointing to his father.

And yet think if he hadn’t. Without Matisse who knows what Picasso would have been? Without Matisse who knows what the 20th century would have looked like?