Archive for February, 2008
Feel the fear and write on anyway
By Orna Ross
”It is human to feel fear, it is inhuman to live from fear.” This comment which I wrote the other night in a group discussion (http://www.blogcatalog.com/group/dialogue-raises-consciousness/discuss/entry/can-we-live-without-fear) has been picked up for further discussion around the blogosphere.
It’s made me think harder about it. I was writing in a general sense but I also feel that this […]
How to Write Good Fiction: Advice from Kurt Vonnegut
Fiction Writers, take note. With his customary wisdom and wit, Kurt Vonnegut here puts forth eight basics of the craft in what he calls Creative Writing 101 — beginning, as all good writers do, with the reader:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time […]
Why F-R-E-E-Write? by Orna Ross
“Don’t go to workshops. The workshop is the death of writing. No one should attend a writing workshop ever.”
Whoa! Who is this? Some old duffer of the writing-can’t-be-taught school, who would never expect, say, a violinist or a painter to emerge, talent fully honed, without training or peer feedback? No, it’s bright-young-thing Scarlett Thomas, being […]
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