![]() ![]() Everybody knows what a house does, how it encloses space and makes connections between one enclosed space and another and presents what is outside in a new way. I go into it, and move back and forth and settle here and there, an stay in it for a while. I don’t take up a story and follow it as if it were a road, taking me somewhere, with views and neat diversions along the way. “ Almost any old way at all that I can get into it.” Munro has used the metaphor of a house when describing how she envisions a story: It didn’t bother me at all.” HOW DOES A STORY START? “It gave me a sense of responsibility, purpose, being important. She’d been doing significant amounts of it since her early teens after her mother was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. ![]() The stories would be well developed before she wrote them down. She nutted many of her stories out while caring for three young daughters. Housework occupies just the right amount of brain, and is sufficiently mundane to let the gates of creativity open. WRITING PROCESSĪlice Munro has stopped writing now, but she found the work of being a housewife compatible with writing. Which Munro story is your ‘shaken but not crushed? I think I know mine, but I’ll keep that to myself. ![]()
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