Olympia: I have written more than five novels. I have a habit of not being able to wait on the edits for one novel to return, so in the meantime, I write another one out of sheer feeling. Impatience of waiting for edits is what causes a lot of the other novels to surface. Once I have one novel slated and into the hands of the publisher, I continue on.
Dee: When you lost those pages because of the computer crashes were you fathomed by it or was the characters so stuck in your mind that it was easy to pull that information out again?
Olympia: The information, the characters never stopped their plea to get their stories out. It did not matter how many times the computer crashed; they were in my head, my body and they were staying with me. They were not of this world, but in it, and cared less about what the human mind had configured (computers). They were from another place, another earth.
Dee: Or neither, did these lost pages put you in a position to add something different that you hadn't expected from the lost pages?
Olympia: I don't remember what was different from the prior lost pages. I don't remember what I had written or lost. It all came out, as it was supposed to, regardless of the loss. I guess there was no real loss in this manuscript. It all came out as it was supposed to. This is how things are with God, incredible.
Dee: Once you became recognized critics have pigeon held your style under this Morrison, Faulkner, and southern-mystique thing. Yet, you say that you had no influences. I understand where you are coming from, but why do so many people believe that if one person did a thing in the past and you do something similar to it than you must have been influenced by them?
Olympia: I respect you for asking me this question. I respect it whole-heartedly. When I was a child, I slept with pens and pencils in my bed. When I was in the womb, I had words in my head, yet to be sent out into the world. There is no great writer in this world. The Word came and we configured it and wrote it down according to our energy. How one writes the word down in their energy depends on whom the writer is, how their energy derived. No two people are genetically and spiritually the same. No two writers have the same energy. For some reason, the world chooses one writer and pins that particular writer as being the voice that others will imitate or look up to. No one ever asked me who I look up to and there is only One, One energy, one spirit of whom I admire: God and God alone. I didn't read Faulkner until many of these books were written. I've read only bits and pieces of Morrison.
