AnniCat: Why are your stories so short?

Maniwolf: Well, I like to come in, make my point, and leave

AnniCat: don’t you think reader would like more “meat”” dsometimes, more substance, after all this is fictious and you want to take the reader on a journey

ManiwolF: You are right, that is one approach, but lots of elaboraqtion is not my approach most of the time. Some readers have said that they feel unsatisfied, that the story doesn’t seem to be finished. This is actually what I want. I want the reader to walk away from the story asking themselves questions, trying to figure out what is going on, working things through in their instincts and feelings. After all, the ides is not that I give the answers, but evoke the readers feelings and insntincts

AnnieCat: At other times I notices that you use long sentences, like in San Francisco and in the Light Painter. So what’s the ides of interspersing long with shoert sentences?

Maniwolf: this is very simple. Like a photographer I zoom in on a certain scenen, so that’s when the sentences suddenly can become ver long, intricate, intense….while when the focus tapers off, they become short and less dramatic.

AnnieCaT: Some readers say youst storriesare depressing, sad. Couldn’t you write some more uplifting stories.

Maniwolf: This is a big subject. It’s a bit hard to explain. First of all my stories have to do with my own life. I believe any writer’s work should be related to her own life. So my life has not been easy, to say it simply. In more serious terms, I survived miracoulously. Now, I believe most people ha not had an easy life, emotionally, economically, physically, if they are aware of it or not. So I believe that ultimately readers can relate to sad stories. I believe for many people it is encouraging that their own, unspeakable pains are expressed in words. When we are able to put our sorrows in words we may get a handle to resolve them.

AnnieCat: But you don’t show them how to resolve them! You leave them dangling there alone!

Maniwolf: No, I am not a psychtherapist, I am a writer, even though the two activities can be close. I hope by evoking instincts and feelings in some people the stories may trigger aq therapeutic process, which can staqrt with looking at their instincts and feelings, day and night dreams, talking to partners, family and friends, seeing counselors and therapists and focus on personal growth.

AnnieCat: Otherpeople say your stories are simplistic, aq bite corny. Always about human issues, nothing really exciting

Maniwolf: Well those are he people who need to reaqd ….or go and visit Disneyland. It’s okay. You can’t write for everybody. Or if you do, the outcome will be a bir flat. So my deep experience is that there is nothing more fascinating than our human nature, interaction, dynamic. It is mind-boggling.

Maniwolf: AnnieCaqt. I chose you as aqn interviewer, because you I like your provocative personatity, your challenging questions. Is there anything positive you would want to say?

AnnieCat: I find your stories uniquely human