Comments on: Guest Slot: “Shaping the Writer” by Annie Evett

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:46:36 +0000

thanks Carole!!

By: Carole Bone

Carole Bone — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:41:07 +0000

A simply wonderful piece of writing. Like all good writing seems so elegantly efortless and paints such vivid scenes of growing up in this larger than life country which, I have always wanted to visit. This account has been written with an obvious love of both the land itself and nature and has intensified my desire to see it all for myself.

Carole

By: annewhitaker

annewhitaker — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:17:26 +0000

Hi Annie

aged seven, in winter in a snowstorm, I didn’t come home from school. My mother called the police, and I was found – a slight child,shivering and covered in snow – pinned to a fence on the mile walk home by the sheer force of a winter gale. The Outer Hebrides in winter, so different from your Outback childhood. But the same lesson: we are part of Nature. Its power encloses and determines all our fates…..

Thanks for a powerful piece.

Anne

By: Annie

Annie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:12:31 +0000

Thanks for your kind words Jodi!

By: Jodi Cleghorn

Jodi Cleghorn — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:02:38 +0000

Your descriptive narrative has long been something I have admired (and been envious off). When questioned on how you do it, you answer simply – I just write what I see. For me it is like this part of my character’s world is shut off to me… no matter how hard I try.

The richness you bring to a scene -especially in your Rromani stories is intense, scintillating and you honestly believe you are standing there. And it is the tiny detail which gives it authenticity.

I’m intrigued by Anne’s original question about early influences on writing. As someone who always loved to talk… no guessing I’m a huge fan of dialogue. I also think all the thousands of pages I penned as an adolescent somehow solidified that state of mind, state of being forever as something that seems to be relatively easily drawn on.

Thanks so much for sharing Annie, and for the guest spot Anne.