Official March 2017 Discussion Thread

It wasn't talking about where she got something from. It was talking about the fact the she can control certain things in her life (her toys, her compartments, her tidiness), but when it comes to other people's interpretations of her work, she has no power over how they see it, or how they criticize the author. For anyone who wants to reread that part, here's the excerpt:
"Pretending in words was too tentative, too vulnerable, too embarrassing to let anyone know. Even writing out the she saids, the and thens, made her wince, and she felt foolish, appearing to know about the emotions of an imaginary being. Self-exposure was inevitable the moment she described a character's weakness; the reader was bound to speculate that she was describing herself. What other authority could she have? Only when a story was finished, all fates resolved and the whole matter sealed off at both ends so it resembled, at least in this one respect, every other finished story in the world, could she feel immune, and ready to punch holes in the margins, bind the chapters with pieces of string, paint or draw the cover, and take the finished work to show to her mother, or her father, when he was home."

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