I get tired of paperwork. Modern living is full of unwanted bills and red tape. You have to carefully arrange your life to avoid this and it’s still hard to do. Writing is a wonderful communication tool and while I hate bills and bureaucratic paperwork, I love books. If you love books like I do it makes sense that you will start to think about writers, about the individuals who wrote the books you like best. Of late I have been thinking about author interviews as usual but mostly about three writers. One is a science fiction author, one a fantasy writer who I’ve loved since childhood and one is a modern novel writer who was one of the reasons I ended up in Washington State for college.
A friend of my Mother’s introduced me to him in my last year of high school and he has a gift with language unlike any I’ve seen before. People used to bring snatches of his writing in to a poetry class I was in once, and he is definitely a poet though the form his writing takes is the long novel.
Weirdly, my boyfriend grew up in the same town where this writer lives and its close by to where we are living now. They are both redheads also. It is interesting to me to think about coincidences and about writers and how their writing can change our lives. I ended up in this state after all much because of this writer, and now my boyfriend is carrying on a correspondence with him. I think he is very lucky to be doing this. The writer is rather retired these days. He wrote his most popular books in the 1980s and 1990s and now though he’s still writing I think he is mostly enjoying the fruits of his labor. My boyfriend fell in love with his books when he just discovered them recently and I think because they have similarly wacky minds and ways they use language, when he wrote the man to tell him how much he loves his books, he actually got written back. At first we were putting his letters up on our refrigerator with magnets but then we realized they can get food spills on them there, so we’ve been filing them away in a safer place.
