From Digital Digressions: Debunking Popular Myths about Creativity:
"Creativity...involves making the familiar strange and the strange familiar."
In writing my novels, I seem to specialize in making the strange familiar. I like taking difficult characters, sometimes behaving badly, and making them clear enough that anyone can understand why they act the way they do.
In my writing, I want to make it possible to identify with anyone. Partly because it's a challenge. Partly because I'm curious about why people surprise me the way they do.
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Hmmm, this is very telling, Peggy. You are very good at this, and I find it very intriguing.
I think the fact that I grew up in the Jim Crow South and didn't question it then, makes me aware that I can really be blind to something important. That is always with me, and affects how I view other folks who miss something important or blunder hugely.
You turned a negative into a positive, Peggy. Your analysis proves how far you have come.
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