08.11.2025 (1): Lyricism in Life
Nov. 8th, 2025 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunshowerdandelionI think my ideal novel is lyrical. I'm a bit ashamed to admit this, ever since Carol Shields said in Unless how the character in it despised lyrical books (I'm sorry Carol Shields I read your book in that unflattering light). But I love Carson McCullers and Eudora Welty and Marilyn Robinson and Alice Munro and Joyce Carol Oates and Ursula K. Le Guin and Lorrie Moore, and most recently Anne Michaels, and probably Tiffany McDaniel, for the way their prose sounds, joyously aloud. And I do need a lyrical book always. Otherwise I think I get antsy and wanting to read a lyrical one. As much as I love certain authors, say, Sigrid Nunez, I don't think her prose contains the lyricism I'm always looking for.
Therefore I've ordered Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels, secondhand. Writing a lyrical chapter for my AU I will need bolstering.
I think I was more careful before this with writing. I was more patient. These days it's always a burden, and I realize that always, always, my writing will need my full attention and my absolute bolstering. It's routine. It's normal for spirits to flag. But I will need to revive it again and again and that's perfectly fine.
Therefore I've ordered Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels, secondhand. Writing a lyrical chapter for my AU I will need bolstering.
I think I was more careful before this with writing. I was more patient. These days it's always a burden, and I realize that always, always, my writing will need my full attention and my absolute bolstering. It's routine. It's normal for spirits to flag. But I will need to revive it again and again and that's perfectly fine.
