Learning to be a Writer

 When I was younger I did not know what it meant to be a writer, what kind of work it was to be a writer. Also, we lacked an easy way to learn such things.

Today, I listened to this podcast interview of Katie Kitamura through LitHub. Which gave this as a teaser.

Katie Kitamura: As a writer, it’s always interesting to think about channeling voices and how voices pass through you and what it means to have a voice. The words of other people—what it means to kind of hold them in your mouth and then to eject them again. I suppose on a more personal level, I’m actually not terribly comfortable with the position of authorship in some way. I’m not terribly comfortable even calling myself a writer. It’s something that I really struggle with, and first-person prose for a long time was really difficult for me for this reason, because it seemed to be a voice that carries so much authority, and authority is something that I really feel I don’t have.

You want to write, please listen to this podcast.

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12/8/21