Hey, Joe! I told you I wasn’t the star student! I’m the one who says things in class like, “I hate theory.”

Hey, Joe! I told you I wasn’t the star student! I’m the one who says things in class like, “I hate theory.”

It’s notable that she says she has to remind herself to include physical description, and I wonder if this is because it’s a critique of her work that she’s heard enough to internalize, or whether it’s something she herself noticed, and if so, why she thought it needed correction.

It really seems to be about whether we want the audience to “see” what’s in our heads as writers, or whether we’re more interested in catalyzing an alchemical transformation between that vision and what’s on the page. Well… I don’t think it’s either/or. In fact, maybe the tension itself needs to be left unresolved.

It’s notable that she says she has to remind herself to include physical description, and I wonder if this is because it’s a critique of her work that she’s heard enough to internalize, or whether it’s something she herself noticed, and if so, why she thought it needed correction.

It really seems to be about whether we want the audience to “see” what’s in our heads as writers, or whether we’re more interested in catalyzing an alchemical transformation between that vision and what’s on the page. Well… I don’t think it’s either/or. In fact, maybe the tension itself needs to be left unresolved.

For me, as well. I actually wanted to ask you how you meant “interesting” in your comment, cause I wasn’t wholly sure how to read it, but then I didn’t.

I think those two sentences, though complicating and maybe even contradictory, are indeed pretty interesting, and I can see them making perfect sense, especially in Mary’s stories.