Writing is not just typing words and sentences. Writing is thinking. So, the writing process will improve and clarify your ideas. The habits that help make writing easier: Understand that writing is a process, take it step by step, and learn to observe and troubleshoot your own process. Wh...
Les Perelman, a retired MIT professor and former associate dean of undergraduate education who ran the university's writing program, gave me this one: "The car was parked by John." My admittedly dated version of Microsoft Word (Word for Mac 2011) is programmed to recognize and correct ...
Written in real time for the latter half, we can follow Winterson reading herself with writing as a therapeutic act, as much as it is a literary portrait of an undeniably amazing artist, and her faith in the written word to heal and ...
Betweentheagesofaboutseventeenandtwenty-fourItriedtoadandonthisidea,butIdidsowiththeconsciousnessthatIwasoutragingmytruenatureandthatsoonerorlaterIshouldhavetosettledownandwritebooks.三个孩子中,我是老二。老大和老三与我相隔五岁。8岁以前,我很少见到我爸爸。由于这个以及其他一些缘故,我的性格有些孤僻。我的举止...
One reason why fiction is a human necessity is that it satisfies many unconscious as well as conscious needs. It would be important if it only touched the conscious mind, as expository writing does. But fiction is important, too, because it also touches the unconscious. ...
in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance on...
Create it yourself. Try creating a writing group for novelists if you’re working on finishing your novel, whether it’s your first or fourth. If you’re looking for friends to run with, put together your own running group. Know that initially your group will probably be pretty small, but...
Puttingasidetheneedtoearnaliving,Ithinktherearefourgreatmotivesforwriting,atanyrateforwritingprose. 这四种动机或多或少地存在于每个作家身上，在某一个作家身上，它们会因时代的不同和生活环境的不同而变化。它们是： Theyexistindifferentdegreesineverywriter,andinanyonewritertheproportionswillvaryfromtimetotime,...
Below are four of the most common reasons why finishing a book is hard, along with action steps to take to get you closer to where you want to be. 1. A Book Is Much More than a Good Idea We all have good ideas for books. Ask anyone who’s ever thought about writing one and you...
in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance on...