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G. Willow Wilson
American
Writer
Born:
Aug 31
,
1982
Me
People
Think
Time
Women
You
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To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
G. Willow Wilson
Me
You
Writing
Ongoing
Steer
Driving
Feels
Like
Freight
Pray
Train
Downhill
Series
My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
G. Willow Wilson
You
Perception
Gone
Bonus
Kid
Out
See
Having
Lay
Factor
Mostly
Trying
Artist
Bigger
Flat
Them
Depth
Much
Describe
Images
I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
G. Willow Wilson
Myself
Somebody
City
Some
Writers
Feel
Like
Fitzgerald
Going
Want
Process
Place
Certain
Your
Compare
Hemingway
Imaginative
I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
G. Willow Wilson
Myself
Family
Culture
Believe
Peer
Defining
Characters
Wrestling
Tend
Point
Adult
Sort
Deal
How
Am
Context
Same
Going
Who
Who Am I
Groups
'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
G. Willow Wilson
People
Forcing
Lost
Air
Seems
Invented
Inverse
Instead
Identity
Bunch
Apart
Landscape
Landscapes
Many
Using
Keep
Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.
G. Willow Wilson
You
Age
World
Country
Way
Perceive
Rather
Attached
Tender
Feel
Leaving
Than
Any
Place
Places
Really
Your
Many
Deeply
I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
G. Willow Wilson
Success
Hope
Will
Doors
Other
Characters
Marvel
Open
Open Doors
Creators
We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
G. Willow Wilson
Women
Black
Girl
Books
Ghetto
Characters
Only
Write
Writers
Allowed
Put
Women Writers
Want
Literary
Which
Create
In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
G. Willow Wilson
Life
Country
Islam
Muslim
See
Colorado
Like
Moved
Convert
The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
G. Willow Wilson
Bible
Ways
More
Relying
Concrete
Than
Esoteric
Often
Far
Far Less
Less
Apparent
Many
'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
G. Willow Wilson
Work
Faith
Worth
Trouble
Complex
Well
Readers
Idle
Undertaking
Any
Fantasy
Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.
G. Willow Wilson
People
Community
Muslims
Know
Most
Realize
In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.
G. Willow Wilson
You
Doctor
Think
Muslim
Muslims
Beside
Computer
True
Know
Likelihood
Been
Waiter
Any
Worked
Even
Served
Treated
Programmer
Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
G. Willow Wilson
You
Members
Muslims
Like
Just
Ordinary
Public
Working
I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
G. Willow Wilson
Religion
You
Nothing
Think
Religious
About
Write
Writer
Push
Being
Inform
Story
Agenda
Certain
Means
Who
I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
G. Willow Wilson
Think
About
Something
Comics
Inherently
There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
G. Willow Wilson
Love
People
Religious
Religious People
Write
Comics
Very
Who
I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
G. Willow Wilson
God
Spiritual
Believe
Strip
Mosque
Readily
Mall
Found
My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.
G. Willow Wilson
Faith
Beauty
Practice
Did
Require
Required
Less
Deeper
Belonging
Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
G. Willow Wilson
Satire
Eyes
Book
Secular
Nothing
Pretty
Above
Tend
Readers
Comic
Comic Book
My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
G. Willow Wilson
Time
Myself
Communicate
Comedy
Black
Spent
Black Comedy
Finding
More
More And More
Various
Share
Powerful
Powerful Thing
Sort
Audiences
Lot
Different
Which
Explaining
Groups
Thing
Career
Desire
The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.
G. Willow Wilson
Woman
Marriage
Old
Troy
Passionate
Story
Stale
Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.
G. Willow Wilson
Love
Time
Spiritual
Women
Men
Men And Women
Fall
Respective
Religious
Some
Wrestling
Course
Always
Issue
Been
Cultural
Norms
Convenient
Groups
Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
G. Willow Wilson
Faith
Good
Religion
You
Mistake
Mind
Important
Heritage
Recognize
Trick
Bad
See
Something
More
Good Thing
Never
Parts
Important Parts
Spouse
Always
Your
Choosing
Who
Thing
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