Yijia Wu(Miller)
English 1110.01, MWF 10:20–—11:15
Professor: Cathy Ryan
Assignment: Dalkey
Feb 19th, 2017
Diane Williams
Diane Williams was a famous writer who lived in New York, America. She was the person I found who has the simple name which can be written easily many times compared to other authors. However, through her interview with John O’Brien, I found that she was a free style writer who does not want to imagine the contents of the book or experience the events she had been through. What she wanted in her book is a brand new world with vivid characters living with their own faith, not Diane’s. Therefore, she is a pretty interesting and successful writer that I personally like.
During the interview, I know that Diane moved from place to place to improve her writing skills when she was very young: firstly in Pennsylvania, and then went to Chicago and New York. Moreover, I learned that she was a very emotional and creative person shown in her dancing period, because she felt depressed when she danced with robot-like dancers and improvised a lot when she did the choreography. Soon after she went to DoubleDay where she trained to be an editor and started her professional writing life. Due to her high self-esteem, she wrote many successful stories during the time she was a secretary of someone else, but could not reproduce the glorious work she had written. After she had her first kid, Jacob, she changed her mind and started writing children’s book under a odd circumstance. Although the book itself did not met the qualification for 12-year-old children to read, she did her best on trying new topics.
When Diane realized that she can write something novel about her own children, she tried her best to imitate the fear that if her child was hit by a car, and that’s how her stream of idea goes. She let her words free to write themselves, and what she could do was put herself in the third person view, getting a reduction on her own point of view, where she found writing could be as a perfection.
If I ever had a chance to interview Diane, I would ask her how to get into the theme that characters move themselves arms and legs when you are writing about them. Diane may respond to me that if you can mimic the character under your pen, such as their feelings, their appearances and their personalities, you can let them go free. The characters would do whatever they want, and you are writing about what you recorded from the theme.
Diane Williams as a successful writing who wrote 8 books, her work are worth for reading, and here is the lists of book she have written.
Books
• This Is About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate (1990).
• Some Sexual Success Stories Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear (1992)
• The Stupefaction (1996)
• Excitability: Selected Stories (1998)
• Romancer Erector (2001)
• It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature, (2007).
• Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty (2012)
• Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine (2016)
Short Fiction
- My First Real Home(2008)
Title: Diane Williams is at her unconventional best in ‘Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine’
Format: Review
Author: Carmela Ciuraru, Jan 21th, 2016
Rating: ★★out of★★★★★
Source: http://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-0124-fine-fine-fine-20160124-story.html
The website introduced Diane’s work Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, and introduced Diane a little bit and her writing style with a picture.
