For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy.

I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.
BOB SHACOCHIS

Art Elbows Glasses
It is no secret that souls sometimes die in a person and are replaced by others.
BOB SHACOCHIS

Secret Sometimes Soul
The people who I’ve lived with for 10 years in my imagination are now sort of defunct. To lose them is rather a mournful process – it’s not a relief.
BOB SHACOCHIS

Imagination Mournful People relief
The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative.
BOB SHACOCHIS

Fun Letting Go Writing
I love research – that’s all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That’s a serious flaw in my writing process – shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.
BOB SHACOCHIS

Assign Especially Piece Thousand
For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy.
BOB SHACOCHIS

Art Character Children

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