GENEVIL
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genevil

There really was nothing in the list of professions that fit me. I am indefinable. That makes me sad sometimes, but not for myself. First and foremost, I am a writer. I suppose everything else is defined by that. I am a student now and forever. That is, if I can find a way to stay. Scratch that, even if I have to leave school at some point, I will still be a student forever. As far as actually making a living? Well, I don't make much of one. Maybe one day I'll have a book on the best sellers list and be doing fine but in the meantime I work random and tedious jobs. I'm trying to start a little business of my own working hoodoo for people and I'm quite good. Trained in New Orleans. But any new business is slow going. I also volunteer at a wildlife rehabilitation hospital. I'm very moody and I love to argue. Sometimes it's hard to tell if I really believe something or if I'm just playing Devil's Advocate. Sometimes I, myself, can't tell. I am a woman of extremes. Sometimes two opposite extremes at once. I would (and often do) call myself a cynical, alcoholic, chain-smoking, bipolar writer. But then again, I would also call myself a devotional, fun-loving, eccentric romantic. Go figure.
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Literature
03/04/2008

How do writers confront the challenges of our craft? Cigarettes and alcohol. I know that sounds like a snarky answer but it's the gospel truth. There is a reason that so many of the Greats were alcoholics. There is also a reason so many of them were mad.

I can only speak as a writer of fiction here but I believe there are similarities among all artistic mediums. But when it comes to fiction, the main struggle is keeping any manner of control over your characters. Writing a novel or a short story is like an unnatural way of giving birth. Writers have the power to create life. Immortal life, at that. It's dangerous. The characters and the stories they need told can overtake a writer.

It's a beautiful, powertful, magical process but it almost always leads to an early grave.

 

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