Comments on: New Ways of Looking at Old Questions: An Interview with Heidi Durrow http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/new-ways-of-looking-at-old-questions-an-interview-with-heidi-durrow fiction matters Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:57:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Write Place, Write Time http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/new-ways-of-looking-at-old-questions-an-interview-with-heidi-durrow/comment-page-1#comment-9592 Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Write Place, Write Time Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:02:56 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=7859#comment-9592 [...] Write Place, Write Time offers a peek into different writers’ workspaces. Above, the writing spot of novelist Heidi Durrow. [...] [...] Write Place, Write Time offers a peek into different writers’ workspaces. Above, the writing spot of novelist Heidi Durrow. [...]

]]> By: Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Glimmer Train Open http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/new-ways-of-looking-at-old-questions-an-interview-with-heidi-durrow/comment-page-1#comment-4884 Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Glimmer Train Open Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:02:04 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=7859#comment-4884 [...] December contest closes on January 2, and the reading fee is $18. Full details here. As Heidi Durrow said in an interview with Mary Westbrook for FWR earlier this year, you have to get it out there: “I sent out my [...] [...] December contest closes on January 2, and the reading fee is $18. Full details here. As Heidi Durrow said in an interview with Mary Westbrook for FWR earlier this year, you have to get it out there: “I sent out my [...]

]]> By: Helen W. Mallon http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/new-ways-of-looking-at-old-questions-an-interview-with-heidi-durrow/comment-page-1#comment-3844 Helen W. Mallon Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:22:59 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=7859#comment-3844 This was a great interview--it's good to hear from a writer who took longer to write her first novel than it's taking me. (Well, but I'm not done yet, am I?!) This touched on some very important intersections/places of tension in a writer's life and work--The pull of the marketplace, which can be soul-killing, vs. the fact that a book that has the power to call forth such a response from its readers has to be motivated by love; the racial issues that are such a huge part of our culture & yet are too seldom addressed; the integrity of a story as against its utility in a social justice sense; the desire to give up and the desire to persist; the need for feedback on our writing and the way feedback can undermine our writing... and all in a short interview. Well done! This was a great interview–it’s good to hear from a writer who took longer to write her first novel than it’s taking me. (Well, but I’m not done yet, am I?!)

This touched on some very important intersections/places of tension in a writer’s life and work–The pull of the marketplace, which can be soul-killing, vs. the fact that a book that has the power to call forth such a response from its readers has to be motivated by love; the racial issues that are such a huge part of our culture & yet are too seldom addressed; the integrity of a story as against its utility in a social justice sense; the desire to give up and the desire to persist; the need for feedback on our writing and the way feedback can undermine our writing…

and all in a short interview. Well done!

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