Maybe you didn’t need to know anything special to write a work of fiction. Maybe you didn’t need to delve into some kind of life question you knew you’d lived. Perhaps your subconscious would do the job for you, if only you dared to dream.
L.L. BarkatTag: writing writers novel-writing how-to-write-fiction
Laura thought Bell would have a few things to say to Pynchon. And Laura had a few things to say to Bell, like, How the hell was a writer supposed to know when she was one-fifth through her novel-writing, so she could cut a door into the wall and shove her character out into the forest?
L.L. BarkatTag: writing novel-writing how-to-write-fiction
One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.
“Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution for the British empire,” Laura returned.
“Writing for me,” Megan had typed.
“I’ll write you a tea fortune.”
“No deal. I want a novel. September sounds good.
Tag: writers tea novel-writing how-to-write-fiction
She meant you have to live a story for a time.'
'And?'
'And then you can write it, in time. What have you lived?'
'Kind of a personal question for Twitterland.'
'Kind of the perfect question to answer in fiction.
Tag: writing writers writers-block novel-writing how-to-write-fiction
The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.)
John GardnerTag: books writing fiction authors instruction craft craftsmanship pulp-fiction technique pulp how-to-write genre-fiction how-to-write-fiction low-brow
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