Little AWP Conference- Fiction About Creative Artists

Attending this seminar was really interesting. Every writer was inspired by different aspects of other artists. Some wrote biographically about photographers, or dancers and their struggles after their careers. Others wrote about the inspiration of music and how the beauty of instruments and sound has inspired their own fictitious writing. One man wrote books about writers and how they influenced peoples lives. Every author had different interpretations of how to represent an artist in their writing. Using an artist's work to get inside their head was a reoccurring theme and they all added a little tweak to the definition of ekphrasis. My favorite was that it is a way to address the conflict between the realms of images and linguistics. I learned a lot about the processor writing and inspiration from them, and many truths were revealed. A book is made up of things that are hard to believe and the characters within all have different ways of being born.