{"id":4261,"date":"2023-09-23T01:55:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T05:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/octavia-butlers-advice-on-writing-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-09-23T01:55:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T05:55:08","slug":"octavia-butlers-advice-on-writing-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/octavia-butlers-advice-on-writing-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Octavia Butler\u2019s Advice on Writing \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Octavia<\/a><\/p>\n

Once, Octavia Butler<\/strong> (June 22, 1947\u2013February 24, 2006) set out to write a memoir. But she found that \u201cit felt too much like stripping in public,\u201d so she abandoned it. Today, all of her autobiographical reflections, all of her overt politics, all of her creative credos come down to us solely through her interviews, now collected in Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview and Other Conversations<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

These conversations are also the reliquary of Butler\u2019s hard-honed wisdom on the craft of writing, which she taught herself and mastered against the odds of her time and place to become one of the most abiding and beloved literary voices of the past century \u2014 part prophet, part poet of possibility. <\/p>\n

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