Perhaps a bit too long after I was pinged about this book, I've finally gotten around to reading it more
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So as a corollary to writing about what we know, maybe we should add getting familiar with our ignorance ... Everybody gets told to write about what they know. ... On Writing in Regional Accents ...My mistake being to try to show off my ear before I had one. ... collection of short stories entitled Slow Learner examines the pitfalls of the writer apprentice's early writing ... all their flaws intact, as illustrative of typical problems in entry-level fiction, and cautionary about
See also this quote about writing and running from another piece of his* ... still have that thick old notebook, with its coffee stains (or whatever they are; I’m not really sure about ... Writing fiction is an entirely personal process that takes place in a closed room. ... The same was true for me when I started out writing—I had nothing resembling a study to work in. ... “Kitchen-table” fiction is what I’ve dubbed these early works.\ When I first started writing Norwegian
me to know very little about. ... The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , but I am interested in how his his desire to learn writing ... When left thus, I used to spend the time in writing in the spaces left in Master Thomas’s copy-book, ... In this way I got a good many lessons in writing, which it is quite possible I should never have gotten ... Every little while, I could hear something about the abolitionists.
poetry, stories. whatever you must. speech is one of the most universal and communicative expression and writing
genre remember 40 000 sats going out next week for the best piece of creative nonfiction --so get yer writing
If we are going to criticize the works of others, then let us write reasonable justifications. ... So wrote Twain in response to a few professors heaping praises on the work of a peer, giving us a glimpse
Forget about the worry, just press on. Don’t be embarrassed about the bad bits. ... [typed] GENERAL NOTE TO MYSELF - Douglas Adams\ Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the ... But writing can be good. You attack it, don’t let it attack you. You can get pleasure out of it. ... strain at them, give yourself time, you can come back and do it again in the light of what you discover about
The following passage makes a prophetic claim--however a sweeping claim it may be--about writing during ... for writing prose. ... Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate ... Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on grown-ups ... It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects
I was reminded by a post in ~Animal_World yesterday that EAP has this marvelous essay about the process
about writing. ... Preamble It has been one month now since I first started thinking about creating this newsletter and ... a recent business venture/creative pursuits and writes about it in https://stacker.news/items/1254803 ... Writing projects. The Sagas are still in the works and I've had a short-story on my mind. ... loved one https://stacker.news/items/1251969/r/billytheked @Jimmyhoneyalchemist is feeling optimistic about
about ... once upon a time Andrew Marvell wrote a poem about the choice to make great love or great art when faced ... forms: in his virgin lover and his verse-- therefore The Ked ere read this poem as a reflection on writing ... to do -- write something interesting and when there innit nothing to write, then do something worth writing
Hopefully next time he raps about self custody.
does this low-time preference community care enough about self-improvement? ... reliable person to hear you out, vis-a-vis what was said here, is a great way to refine how you think about ... a substantial comment on the other person's writing for each of their posts. ... of SN inspired by @TotallyHumanWriter, specifically a comment he made on his well-executed list of writing ... But, there's probably no better antidote to your worst writing habits like having a good reader give
interesting idea
--allowing other metrics to determine the winner/s and then zaps are a bonus --an indicator of popularity to be a metric but not the deciding one
I set reply fees at 10 sats to discourage spam/trolling/hateful comments since sharing literary and artistic content takes making oneself vulnerable online. I'm hoping this contributes to making a space where people feel encouraged to share.
Many similar onine spaces simply disable comments. Obviously we dont need to do that here.
I think there is a lot someone--even a native English speaker-- can learn by approaching their writing