How to Know if You’re a Writer
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.… Read More How to Know if You’re a Writer
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Writers’ Drafts: Who Needs Them?
Like all creativity, writing is a wandering and iterative process, where the creator doesn’t know where it’s going. A writer makes hundreds of creative decisions along the way–sometimes, a hundred in just one day. Which word to use; choosing a comma, period, or semicolon; moving a paragraph a few pages forward, or maybe up at… Read More Writers’ Drafts: Who Needs Them?
What Happens Next? (The Problem with Plot)
Novelist Marisa Silver describes the creative process, in the Sunday NYTimes book review: My particular writing methodology, if it could be called that, might be summarized this way: Go inside a dark tunnel filled with conflicting, incongruent ideas, paw around for a few years. Finally, figure out how to crawl toward a pinprick of light… Read More What Happens Next? (The Problem with Plot)
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