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| A Cool Bit with Francesca Lia Block Who says fairy tales are just for kids? Francesca Lia Block has been crowned Girl Goddess #1 by teens far and wide for her slinkster-cool Weetzie Bat tales about hip, savvy young adults who find meaning in Shangri-LA, I mean, Los Angeles. In this never-before-published conversation from 1998, Francesca talks about her creative process, darkness, and hope. Cathy: How do your stories begin? How do you get them out? What do you do when you get stuck? Do you have rituals to help you get in a writing frame of mind? FLB: I take long walks with my dog [Vincent van Go Go Boots] and that helps, sucking my lower lip and twirling a strand of hair around my finger. I would make up stories to myself and sometimes I would say them out loud. I must have looked like a little mad girl or something! I needed that motion. I like to dance. I really need motion or dancing and moving in order to get my ideas out. I don't have a set schedule. I heard that Isabelle Allende starts a book on the same day each year and that Clive Barker writes 8 hours a day. For me, it's more about being there for the muse to happen but not in a structured way. I don't know when I get my work done. It's almost as if I go into a trance. Suddenly, I have something done, but it doesn't feel like it was work. Cathy: You know, the whole idea of what Young Adult literature can be has changed so much in recent years, and I think that you contributed to that change. I also think that when The Hanged Man first came out that people were stuck on some of the motifs in your Weetzie Bat books: rubber chickens with wigs and slinkster-cool pooches. I'm not sure if people were ready to read such explicit darkness from you. |
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