tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post116586306665320975..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: REMAINDERED MOVIESUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-1165947168733811612006-12-12T11:12:00.000-07:002006-12-12T11:12:00.000-07:00I don't really know. I guess my goal is to mine f...I don't really know. I guess my goal is to mine for reality in my own life rather than to recycle what others saw. I guess there's really no way to push out some of the images and assumptions, though. Once in a while I see a movie without any consciousness of even viewing it earlier, and realize that this on the screen is something that I thought actually happened to ME. It was so vivid and so emotionally engaging that I lost the line. It does seem as though a writer ought to be in more control -- but how much of good writing is really abandonment to the strange forces deep within, the same ones that bring dreams?Mary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-1165945033900972142006-12-12T10:37:00.000-07:002006-12-12T10:37:00.000-07:00"Sometimes when I watch such movies I worry that t...<I>"Sometimes when I watch such movies I worry that they are so powerful that they will sneak into my writing"</I> - is that necessarily a bad thing (particularly if no-one else is watching these movies)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com