Original music by Lora-Faye Åshuvud and art by Kirstin Huber.Īsali Solomon’s first novel, Disgruntled, was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Denver Post. I feel a delicate balance between what you’re trying to control and what you’re just letting happen.įor more Thresholds, visit us at. Probably if you tried to control it more forcibly, you would get yourself in a bad situation. You have your mind on certain discrete and specific controls, and then the rest, you just don’t even need to know about it. And there’s only so much you need to know about it in order to keep moving. What just occurred to me-and I don’t know anything about this personally-but if you’re trying to navigate a boat, you in some ways know very little about the ocean, the river, what’s going on there. I know very little about something when I sit down to write it usually I just have an image. I write from a place of, okay, this little nugget of a scene interests me, so I’m going to write it, and in that way I will know what happens in the scene. When people talk about things like outlines, I don’t do anything like that. Because you always want to be writing in a way that’s a process of discovery. Asali Solomon: I think a lot about this recently, and probably in relationship with trying to talk to the students-the things that I just didn’t know for years, and then the things that it’s not your job to know.
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