I tend to start with a fantastical premise, and then I place it in the world we know. Or, really, it places itself. Honestly, I feel that I have very little control of the magical aspect, as that's just what comes out for me.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you know you have to hit the ground running. - Laurie Foos
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you know you have to hit the ground running.
- Laurie Foos
My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what were then called "movie magazines,"Before Elv… - Laurie Foos
My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what were then called "movie magazines,"Before Elv…
What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doin… - Laurie Foos
What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doin…
I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though it isn't min… - Laurie Foos
I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though it isn't min…
I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke u… - Laurie Foos
I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke u…
I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherh… - Laurie Foos
I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherh…
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind. - Laurie Foos
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.
As soon as you start to question your own intent while you're still in the process of discovering your story, you're in trouble because you've pulled… - Laurie Foos
As soon as you start to question your own intent while you're still in the process of discovering your story, you're in trouble because you've pulled…
Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal ills that we should talk about m… - Laurie Foos
Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal ills that we should talk about m…
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