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“I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
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“I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“To me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“You can make anything by writing.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“It doesn’t matter what we write so long as we write continually as well as we can.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
By Kit Carlson I have a new lease on my writing life, and I owe it all to Harriet the Spy. I was just cleaning the guest room, organizing the shelves where we keep the huge collect...
“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least that is my view) at our age, so long as we write…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
Writing is hard. And if you’re not going to work hard at it you probably shouldn’t even try. Several novels in, some published, some not, and it still hasn’t gotten any easier. The...
“Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“The writer has to have patience, the perseverance to just sit there alone and grind it out. And if it’s not worth doing that, then he…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
To write is to cut your vein and bleed. To witness the shades of black and grey emerge from that blood. To notice each cell dance, squirm in pain, crave endless connection, wallow...
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“Originality is nothing other than the deepest honesty.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“The job of the writer on a studio assignment is to deliver a shootable script as defined by other people — the director, actors…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
“The secret to screenwriting is short sentences, small words, and BIG pictures.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
I was invited to pay a visit this month to something called the Inkhaven Residency in California “to talk about the craft, advise, and give feedback on the writing.” It happens tha...
A student recently asked, looking at the bookshelf in my office, “How did all these people get from here to there? From words on a screen to bound on the shelf?” I started to give...
Write what you know. We’ve all heard that line so many times that it’s become a cliché, and we usually take it to mean writing about things we personally know and understand. Excep...
“I’m just not a good writer.”It’s a phrase teachers hear too often, usually at the exact moment a writing task is assigned. For many students, the leap ...
“I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
We need the mess of it all. Without it, what remains are sentences that are technically flawless but emotionally vacantSome people are naturally drawn to writing – scribbling notes...
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