No, I won't ever write another 'Lily Bard.' I said everything I had to say about Lily.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.
'Say Her Name' was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn't trying to do anything except write a book for Aura - a book that I thought I had to write.
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.
I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.
I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.
I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at the mercy of whatever talent you have.