Mary Lewis
My blogs
| Occupation | Writer |
|---|---|
| Introduction | You have to write to get through school, so I did, painfully. It was doable if it was about the art of Ancient Assyria and not some blank page on which I was supposed to be original. But when my family started a round robin letter, pre internet, pre email, I used it as a kind of concise one page journal of that month, and tried to make it interesting. My plunge into fiction happened when I showed my Mom an account of her brother’s funeral, and the vivid people who honored him, including close relatives, I was shocked that she thought I was telling it all wrong. It was my Sinclair Lewis moment. So I changed the names, but of course you could still tell this was cousin John even if I called him cousin Francois, so I changed some things about him. Then it got too complicated so I gave up and started totally making up my characters. Voila, fiction! |
| Interests | Exploring nature, dance (modern, old, jazz, hip hop), skating (roller and figure), piano (Beethoven and a few others) |