Apart from the main issue at hand, it is interesting to request a room of one's own, or to approach writing as a way of establishing the Self. Certainly, there is an element of expression in writing, particularly for tortured poets who have no other way to make themselves heard. Yet the Writers we both admire do service to the Other, telling someone else's story, making it accessible. For someone to have written an entire story in a room of one's own would be an amazement, without the human contact and access to the world that provides the stories and material that flow onto the paper. It is a balance, to have both the necessary time and conditions to write, and to have the experience and understanding of human character and characters to write with integrity.
I shall try to read Jane Eyre next break or during the summer, and thus complete the first course in this education. Do I have any masculine writers to offer in response? Perhaps Timothy Zahn, perhaps again Orson Scott Card (regardless of our shared feelings of his personal opinions on present issues) -- but these are merely examples, defensive examples, held up in defense, not of my own sex, but of the idea that the boundaries can be crossed in both directions, and that to redraw lines with proud new works may be little better in the long run than abandoning writing altogether.
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Apart from the main issue at hand, it is interesting to request a room of one's own, or to approach writing as a way of establishing the Self. Certainly, there is an element of expression in writing, particularly for tortured poets who have no other way to make themselves heard. Yet the Writers we both admire do service to the Other, telling someone else's story, making it accessible. For someone to have written an entire story in a room of one's own would be an amazement, without the human contact and access to the world that provides the stories and material that flow onto the paper. It is a balance, to have both the necessary time and conditions to write, and to have the experience and understanding of human character and characters to write with integrity.
I shall try to read Jane Eyre next break or during the summer, and thus complete the first course in this education. Do I have any masculine writers to offer in response? Perhaps Timothy Zahn, perhaps again Orson Scott Card (regardless of our shared feelings of his personal opinions on present issues) -- but these are merely examples, defensive examples, held up in defense, not of my own sex, but of the idea that the boundaries can be crossed in both directions, and that to redraw lines with proud new works may be little better in the long run than abandoning writing altogether.