Lucy Jane Bledsoe: Why I Write (Fiction)
I write because I’m awed by the way this chicken scratch—infinite combinations of 26 letters—turns into story.
I write because story is the most essential nutrient of culture.
I write because I get confused and frustrated by our culture, and writing helps me explore what it means to be human.
I write because I believe imagination is the most exciting human attribute.
I write because I’m awed, nurtured, confused, frustrated, and excited by humanity.
Through story, I engage and connect and imagine and explore and sometimes understand.
I write because story is the most essential nutrient of culture.
I write because I get confused and frustrated by our culture, and writing helps me explore what it means to be human.
I write because I believe imagination is the most exciting human attribute.
I write because I’m awed, nurtured, confused, frustrated, and excited by humanity.
Through story, I engage and connect and imagine and explore and sometimes understand.
Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s most recent novel, The Big Bang Symphony, was a finalist for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Fiction Award, as well as the Ferro-Grumley Fiction Award. Her stories have been published in Shenandoah, Arts & Letters, Hot Metal Bridge, Bloom, Terrain, and ZYZZYVA. She is a recent winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Fiction and the Arts & Letters Fiction Award.
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