Comments on: Guest Blog: The DNA of Writers by Janice Ivy

By: Suzannah Burke

Suzannah Burke — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:24:38 +0000

Janice I missed this when you first put it up..what a hoot. My daughter is also a writer, the gene pool and the environment she was raised in really didn’t give her much of a choice. The little wretch was critiquing my stuff at around age 8…Mind you they were all stories I had written exclusively for her, covering all the sweet years of her life.

When she talks to me on the phone these days she often laughs out loud, she said recently, “Ma, I always know when you’ve been editing, you talk like Cyril for hours afterwards.”
To many people that is a fair deal, we often get into our characters…It’s just that, well you see…um..Cyril is a crocodile! Nuff said?
Great post, my friend.

By: Malcolm James Thomson

Malcolm James Thomson — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:20:55 +0000

Sounds like a fun family, Janice. My own daughter, twenty-one now, shakes her head but plays along increasingly happily when we meet up about twice a week. For she must not only hear from me about the doings of the real people in my everyday life but also about the latest machinations of the people who only exist in my imagination… people I observe closely, listen to attentively, before I can transcribe the seen, heard and imagined into words on paper.

What a shame that this blog gets so little feedback in the form of comments. I really thought my own contribution contained a couple of controversial suggestions which might have provoked some reaction but… nada.

Good luck with your “Trash”!

By: Alexie Aaron

Alexie Aaron — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:29:43 +0000

Is there a gene for writers? I can’t answer that, but I can tell you that environment has a lot to do with it. My sister was writing for the newspaper in high school. Her articles were very popular. My niece has a wonderful talent for telling tales in the fantasy YA genre. Me, I’m just a daydreamer putting the dreams on a piece of paper looking to entertain people. As children, we were encouraged to read and all love books. My daughter was so encouraged that she took herself all the way to England, starting with critical theory and ending up with a PhD in English Literature. Maybe it’s both genetic and environmental.

By: Kazza

Kazza — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:16:50 +0000

Hey, Jan! This is great! You’ve nailed it on the head; we writers look at the world differently. Everything is a story… an incident at the mall, a particular storm, a family tiff at the beach… all potential murder mysteries, romanace novels, tales of adventure.

We writers might be a bit ‘off’ and quirky, but damn! We’re weavers of tales! We’ve got every right to be (and I love knowing I now have an excuse!)

Thanks for your insight.
Kaz

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