Mikayla
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Laini Taylor:
Your writing is so incredibly beautiful and wickedly haunting-- the images that you come up with are some of the strangest and most enchanting I've ever had the pleasure to read. As a writer, do you see these things in your mind's eye ahead of time and write them down or do they come to life on the page? What is your process for writing not the story, but all the pieces you fill in that make the story what it is?
Laini Taylor
Hi Mikayla! Thank you!!! I'm not sure how to answer. I do a lot of thinking/brainstorming about the story, and writing *about* the story, trying to figure things out and stir up ideas, but most of the good stuff comes in the actual act of writing, messing around with words on the page/screen. I LOVE to tinker with language, imagery, metaphor. All that comes when I'm actually IN the words, in a scene, moving words around. The language is so important to me, I let myself spend a lot of time playing, getting it how I want it. A lot of the story ends up arising out of the prose too.
Laini Taylor
Hi Mikayla! Thank you!!! I'm not sure how to answer. I do a lot of thinking/brainstorming about the story, and writing *about* the story, trying to figure things out and stir up ideas, but most of the good stuff comes in the actual act of writing, messing around with words on the page/screen. I LOVE to tinker with language, imagery, metaphor. All that comes when I'm actually IN the words, in a scene, moving words around. The language is so important to me, I let myself spend a lot of time playing, getting it how I want it. A lot of the story ends up arising out of the prose too.
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