“Art Is Organic.” – Sarah Michelle Lynch
“Art is feeling the emotions of a story and not only subscribing to them but living them and absorbing them” -Sarah Michelle Lynch taken from Writing An Organic Novel Which Becomes a Living Organism
I came across this quote and had to share it. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the way my novel came into being. Honestly, I’ve been writing it for a long time, so I don’t remember the initial start of it, but I do remember when it became vital for me to become a part of it. I didn’t want to write it from a distance. I didn’t want it to be about characters I didn’t care to know. I had to welcome characters that grew as the story unfolded.
And you know what happened?
They came alive and led me out of what could have been a pretty dark place.
It’s one thing for me to love the idea of an organic novel; it’s another to show up to the page with all my vulnerabilities and the willingness to let my novel change me.
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