I love your obsession Michelle. Thank you for reintroducing yourself. I think that writing allows one to play with the idea of persona(s) and self, perhaps even more so than the theater arts. Writing is a direct channel to our inner thoughts and how we tend to "re"-present ourselves, even to ourselves. (Am I making sense here?!!)
Merci Brigitte! It's funny you mention the theater arts because it was one of my obsessions as a child... And I agree with you writing does allow to play with different personas. There is a quote by the American writer Joan Didion I think about often: "I wanted to be an actress. I didn’t realize then that it’s the same impulse. It’s make-believe. It’s performance. The only difference being that a writer can do it all alone." It's true. Writing is performance!
I love your obsession Michelle. Thank you for reintroducing yourself. I think that writing allows one to play with the idea of persona(s) and self, perhaps even more so than the theater arts. Writing is a direct channel to our inner thoughts and how we tend to "re"-present ourselves, even to ourselves. (Am I making sense here?!!)
Merci Brigitte! It's funny you mention the theater arts because it was one of my obsessions as a child... And I agree with you writing does allow to play with different personas. There is a quote by the American writer Joan Didion I think about often: "I wanted to be an actress. I didn’t realize then that it’s the same impulse. It’s make-believe. It’s performance. The only difference being that a writer can do it all alone." It's true. Writing is performance!