Writing is like sex.
Editing is like scraping gunk off your shoes. Stay tuned for this and more when
Lois Lavrisa interviews Ina Margaret Wright (I. M. Wright) in this blog post.
And a huge shout out to Joe and Tess for the opportunity to contribute to a
great cause.
Lois:
Ina, thank you for being here with me today.
Ina: Where are you? ‘Cause I’m sitting here in my
kitchen in my housecoat and I don’t see you. Are you at the back door?
Lois: I mean that figuratively.
Ina: Okay then. If you were here I would put on
another pot of coffee. Unless you are one of them crunchy, or is it crusty?
Hippies who likes pretentious Frappuccino, or other crazy concoction, with soy
and a squirt of some other health nut sounding thing like flax. Then you are
out of luck. I’ve got Mr. Coffee, milk and sugar, plain and simple.
Lois: Another time. So what made you write your
first book?
Ina: A dare by Joe. He may have thought that not
many writers would take him up on it, but a ton did. Just goes to show how
authors are quite competitive. We like winning stuff. You know I have a 4-H
blue ribbon for hog calling?
Lois: Congratulations.
Ina: Did Joe say he was giving out prizes for us
winners?
Lois: He graciously mentioned each book on his post.
Ina: Nice guy. Great author too. I think I was his
first fan. Do you think he’d remember me? By the way I have a fan, and when it
gets really hot I blast it directly in my face. You’d think I’d be over the hot
flashes at my age, but no.
Lois: Back to your writing.
Ina: Yes that. To me writing is like sex,
sometimes it works great and other times it weird and awkward and you say to
yourself, “What the hell was that?”
Lois: What is your process?
Ina: Well, the hubby takes out the trash- after
all of these years of marriage I consider that foreplay and then I go into the
bedroom---
Lois: I don’t mean to interrupt you, but I wanted to
know about your writing process not---
Ina: Oh? Right. Okay then. If you ever want some
advice in the, you know, boudoir, just let me know. Fine. So you want to know
about my writing. Well, I write a lot of stuff then I have to go back and
scrape a bunch of the gunk away.
Lois:
Edit?
Ina: Sure you can call it that. Like if you get
something stuck on the bottom of your shoe, you have to dig at it, or toss the
shoe if it’s hopeless. Editing is like that.
Lois:
Sorry Ina. We are out of time. Thanks for being here with me.
Ina:
Even though I am not really with you, thanks for having me too. Let me know if
you ever need any advice, I am full of it.
Lois:
You definitely are.
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