This morning, I finished up Adam Gidwitz' middle grade historical fiction, The Inquisitor's Tale. Set in the France of Louis IX, its use of the supernatural is absolutely of the era without feeling like contemporary fantasy. Fantasy is fine, but too much of it could've taken us out of the 13th century. Gidwitz pretended his way into the story, and, like you, wisely skipped the first person interview process. Your writing here this morning makes for a great followup. Thank you!
This is great…for so many reasons…showing us your own struggle with the subject matter and the attachment to “truth”, and how in the end..:the story is what it’s about so all the other stuff can be tossed..:I just love this piece, about the abandoned X Squat, and that it lives as a burnt out structure in some publishers eye…so cool…although, it’s probably been bought by a hedge fund and has now become part of the gentrification of the block! Hahahaha great piece Ms. Luna, thanks. Looking forward to more inspiring thoughtful passages.
I don’t know if this is similar or not, but in a life drawing class in art school, a professor once said that we had to balance what we could see with what makes sense. Sometimes your brain makes sense of an extremely foreshortened limb, for example, because it knows what limbs do and look like in the world, whereas if we drew the arm exactly as it looked coming at the viewer, the drawing would look weird. The brain doesn’t fill in the same information in a 2-D rendition. In other words, draw what you see except when you have to make adjustments to make a good drawing.
This morning, I finished up Adam Gidwitz' middle grade historical fiction, The Inquisitor's Tale. Set in the France of Louis IX, its use of the supernatural is absolutely of the era without feeling like contemporary fantasy. Fantasy is fine, but too much of it could've taken us out of the 13th century. Gidwitz pretended his way into the story, and, like you, wisely skipped the first person interview process. Your writing here this morning makes for a great followup. Thank you!
This is great…for so many reasons…showing us your own struggle with the subject matter and the attachment to “truth”, and how in the end..:the story is what it’s about so all the other stuff can be tossed..:I just love this piece, about the abandoned X Squat, and that it lives as a burnt out structure in some publishers eye…so cool…although, it’s probably been bought by a hedge fund and has now become part of the gentrification of the block! Hahahaha great piece Ms. Luna, thanks. Looking forward to more inspiring thoughtful passages.
Love this advice, Cari. And I love your novel so it's fun to read about what went into the revision. Thank you!
I don’t know if this is similar or not, but in a life drawing class in art school, a professor once said that we had to balance what we could see with what makes sense. Sometimes your brain makes sense of an extremely foreshortened limb, for example, because it knows what limbs do and look like in the world, whereas if we drew the arm exactly as it looked coming at the viewer, the drawing would look weird. The brain doesn’t fill in the same information in a 2-D rendition. In other words, draw what you see except when you have to make adjustments to make a good drawing.
I really liked this.