Prompt: "If you could conduct an interview with any of the writers we have encountered this quarter, who would you interview? Why? What would you ask him or her?"
I would really be interested in listening to N. Scott Momaday. Would he be as crazy all over the place in conversation as in his writing? I would like to ask for his clarification on his essay, "The Man Made of Words". I might ask, "have you ever experienced something like this, and is that why you chose to write this?" (with the underlying question being, "Mr. Momaday, have you ever smoked something?") I do not mean to take anything away from his work, but I am merely curious as to how one comes about writing such strange and complex pieces without loosing focus in the actual act of writing.
So now I ask, what would YOU want to know about his work, his writing style, or what inspired him?
I would ask him something similar, like "What provoked or inspired you to write like this?" or "Do you know anyone else with your particular writing style?"
ReplyDeleteI feel that all writers are provoked to write a certain way for some reason, and I would be curious to see what those reasons are as well.