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    “Writers on Writing” ~ A feast of wisdom and advice. Via
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    5 Feb
    “The creative process can be healing.” An inspiring & beautiful article on “Finding Poetry in Cancer.”
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    4 Feb
    "The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers along the way,what he needs." ~Wally Lamb
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    FOR WRITERS
    WRITERS ON WRITING

    Facing the “You’re a Failure” Voice
    Caroline Leavitt

    Someone recently asked me in an interview, “How do you obliterate that voice inside of you that tells you you’re a failure as a writer?”I laughed when I heard the question because most of the writers I know and hang out with, from prize winners to fledgling authors, all seem to battle the same anxiety that we’re somehow not good enough...READ MORE


    What Does It Really Mean When People Say Your Character is Unsympathetic?
    Christina Baker Kline

    Ever since I started noticing the typos in Nancy Drew books, I’ve loved to edit.  In high school I convinced my mother, an overworked English professor, to let me do an anonymous first read of her students’ papers. (I marked them in pencil and she’d follow up in pen.)...READ MORE


    Why Tried and True Advice Can Doom You
    John Wray

    Two of the most dangerous sinkholes I fell into as a developing writer were very much part of the creative writing dogma of the time, and continue to cause trouble to this day: "find your voice" and "write what you know."...READ MORE


    The Thirty-Year Novel
    Leora Skolkin-Smith

    As part of surviving the long, lonely hours of writing a  novel about madness that I was certain would continue to be rejected by publishers, I found solace, company, and some stubborn shared mission in the fiction about madness before this era, and in some newly translated writers. My shelves became populated with two Nobel Prize winners, quite a few 20th Century modernists...READ MORE


    Research in Fiction—Necessary But Dangerous
    Helen Benedict

    As someone who writes both journalism and fiction, I have often struggled with how to balance research and imagination. READ MORE


    To Plot or Not
    Terese Svoboda

     I don't plot. I started out as a poet. You don’t need plot in poetry, you have the page, all that dramatic white space, the ends of lines and stanza breaks to organize and build suspense. Readers hang on every word in poetry—and every word omitted. What readers hang on in fiction is just as complicated but perhaps the unrevealed tantalizes the fiction reader the most. READ MORE


    What's in a Title?
    Erika Dreifus

    I learned lessons about "quiet" fiction back in 2001, when a literary agent began circulating my first book-length fiction manuscript, a World War II-focused novel titledThe Haguenauer Line. Soon enough, rejections accumulated. READ MORE


    On Finding Your Material
    Sheila Kohler

    Finding our material is one of the most essential parts of our work as writers. It is difficult, first, to find material with heat—dangerous material, where one is exposed morally, one's reputation put in jeopardy; where one acknowledges one's own responsibility in some crime of the heart, and is then willing to write about it. READ MORE


    Bonnie Friedman
    Writers and Self-Sabotage 
    Bonnie Friedman

    I used to induce in myself awful states of envy. It took years to notice what I was doing, though, because it was so counter-intuitive. After all, who wants to feel bad? What secret purpose could envy possibly serve?READ MORE


    Caroline Leavitt
    Getting Unstuck
    Caroline Leavitt

     If you’re a writer, you know the routine.  You’re halfway in the middle of your novel or story and suddenly you feel stuck.  You can’t move forward.  You have no idea why the plot isn’t thickening, but instead seems stuck in concrete. Recently, I hit one of those dead ends in the novel I’m writing now, but because I had some techniques—my personal lifesavers—the journey was not as perilous as I feared. READ MORE


    Roxana Robinson
    Huskies, Hackneys
    Roxana Robinson

     All the fiction I write arises from the same sort of impulse: it’s a feeling of discomfort, a kind of unspecified anxiety, a need to uncover something that troubles and disturbs me. I write toward that feeling. I try to explain it to myself in order to disarm it, to rob it of its potency. I don’t know how this explanation will happen. I don’t know how the disarmament will take place, or what else will happen in the process. READ MORE
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    • MacDougal Street BabyPosted on February 09, 2011 19:35Thank you for this. Would you believe me if I told you I woke up this morning with this very question tapping on my brain? And here you are, in this moment, answering it. And not only that. You've explained it in a way that makes perfect sense to me. This helps me enormously. Thank you!
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