Perhaps a bit too long after I was pinged about this book, I've finally gotten around to reading it more

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.

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

genre remember 40 000 sats going out next week for the best piece of creative nonfiction --so get yer writing

poetry, stories. whatever you must. speech is one of the most universal and communicative expression and writing

[The young writer] must train himself in ruthless intolerance.

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

i always appreciate Lyn's reviews and commentary on writing. ... I think I heard once maybe there was an interest in writing sci-fi, but i'm unfamiliar as to whether

I was reminded by a post in ~Animal_World yesterday that EAP has this marvelous essay about the process

here goes: WELCOME to Daily Musings: A Creativity Journal* a goal of mine, as for now, is to write ... or otherwise created by curators, and observers, sometimes passive consumers, sometimes themselves writers

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

Then write it down making it clear so the reader will see it too and have the same feeling you had.

THE BEST UNDER 400 weekly writing contest going forward id like to incentivize stackers to exercise

one thing that inspires me about Den is how he writes and writes and writes with complete abandon. what

happy writing! ... CONGRATULATIONS* to all of those who participated in the inaugural edition of sn's only weekly writing ... notable writing elsewhere https://stacker.news/items/1042281/r/unschooled, by @tef https://stacker.news ... determine the BEST under 400 another thing im planning territory-wise is to share some tried and true writing

i plan on being idle for a bit, spending some time with a dead friend thinking about a potential review ... tomorrow is monday so I'll be back into my morning writing routine. and you? ... for ~BooksAndArticles, and refining some writing id been working on this past week.