The English Department of the University of Maine welcomed Lucy Honig on March 25, to speak about her writings, her style of writing and to read some passages from her new book.
The seminar took place in the writing center inside Neville Hall, at 4:30 pm on Thursday. Honig was introduced as an extraordinary writer who lived in Maine for quite sometime before moving to New York, and now to Massachusetts where she currently resides. While in Maine, she incorporated her Maine experiences in her books, and continues to today. In the meeting she spoke about her newest book "Waiting for Rescue", which was published late in the year 2009. "Waiting for Rescue" is a book about the September 11, terrorist attacks and how it affected the lives of people all over the world. The story is a fictional story that loosely resembles her reaction, and the reaction of the people close to her at the time of the attacks. "This book was very unusual," Honig says. "It started out as a bunch of different stories all on one page, not making any sense. At one point, when I realized they wouldn't all come together I separated the short stories. But as I continued to write each day, I would go back to the page filled with the different stories and string them together."After reading several segments from her book, she talked about her writing process. Honig explained that all of her books start with something important in her life; something that she felt strongly about. She explained to all of the future writers, listening to her speech, that writing is easiest when it is about something you love.
At the end of Honig's speech, questions were asked and answered, and she did a book signing. Other books featured at the seminar included: Open Season, The Truly Needy, and Picking Up.
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