diary / by Edward Mullany

And the best way to do this is through a coldness of technique, which really means, for the writer, not being carried away by, or swept up in, the drama of their own feelings, as the writer finds those feelings manifesting in the fiction for which they are responsible, but maintaining a loyalty of attention to the ordering and selection of each word and pause and mark of punctuation that, arriving out of the void of the empty page, would seem almost to present itself to the writer, or assert itself on its own (as if conscious of its necessity), if only the writer would give it the opportunity to do so.