Response
to Nancy Werlin
From: Jane Yolen
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001
Subject: Flying into the Mist
To: magazine@hbook.com
I absolutely agree with Nancy
Werlin in her “Horning in” article. Like Nancy,
I do not outline when I write but rather “fly into the mist”
as one writer friend calls it. There are always characters arguing
with me in my head. And even when I try not to listen to them, they
are there: insistent, seductive, overpowering.
I would never presume to tell Jennifer Armstrong
how to write her books. If outlining works for her, I am delighted.
She writes strong books. So does Werlin. So, I hope, do I.
Jane Yolen
author of (among others) Armageddon Summer, The Devil’s
Arithmetic, Dragon’s Blood, Queen’s
Own Fool and 200 more.
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