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Friends,
Continuing on with my series about work, I wanted to consider not just writing but being a writer. In other words, what it takes and take from you to write; the work of being a writer. I wanted to do it with another working writer who writes in genre-defying and genre-defining modes, so I asked SARAH MARIA GRIFFIN back onto the show. Sarah – who was last on the show back on AEWCH 93 – is the author of poetry, zines, memoir, and dark fantasy, including her masterful weird novel, Other Words for Smoke. She’s also a teacher and tarot reader. Now she had two upcoming horror novels (keep an eye out!) and understands the life of not just writing but being a writer and all that that requires: the mediating of forces dark and difficult, the frightening endurance, the tedious quotidian tasks, the managing of the expectations of readers.
It’s not easy work, but it’s also the work that she – and I – love most.
Why? Why do we want more of life in isolation on the ecotone of symbol and reality?
This is a personal and weird episode, and I hope you love it.
CH