Jennifer McKenzie

Romance--Boy meets girl. Romantic Suspense--Boy meets girl with dead bodies.
Monday, March 19, 2007

On A Personal Note

Taking a break for a moment from the ongoing promotion, I have a little something to share. I've been reading Anne Lamott's book "Bird By Bird" and loving it. I'm going to share a little from it just for all of you.

"To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of the solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on......A moral position is a passionate caring inside you. We are all in danger now and have a new everything to face, and there is no point gathering an audience and demanding its attention unless you have something to say that is important and constructive. My friend Carpenter says we no longer need Chicken Little to tell us the sky is falling, because it already has. The issue now is how to take care of one another." ("Bird By Bird" by Anne Lamott pp. 107-08)

I think this is true. The main themes in my stories are acceptance and struggle. No matter what the context, I believe in the human struggle to find acceptance of self, forgiveness, others' weaknesses and situations. It's the running crux of all my plots.
Does that make sense?

posted at 7:42 AM by Jennifer ::
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