I never know whether these 'how-to' books are useful or not when it comes to writing. I find a number of them not helpful in any practical way. The Writer's Way was the last straw for me and writing books. I couldn't bear the sanctimony or the expectation that I could kind of 'channel' my writing from some esoteric space. I enjoyed this piece. Thank you.
I see The Artist's Way as a roadmap to discovering your art. I really love the concept of the Artist date with yourself, seeing sights and getting your inspiration flowing. I didn't take the program literally, although I do some form of morning pages, just not as rigid as taught in the book. It's a take-what-you-need-and-leave-the-rest kinda book IMO
I very rarely read the kind of books you mention I find them about exciting as a parking . I'd rather reread the writers who inspire me and who taught me how to write'
I reread Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse every five years.I also reread a slim novel too few know about - Tom Kromer's Waiting For Nothing, 1935 written in the depths of the Depression while he was homeless. More than any other novel or the stories of Hemmingway and Raymond Carver, Kromer t aught me the value of the short sentence, as opposed to the diarrhetic endless long sentences that many novelists of today employ to a) cover up the face they arent saying much of anything, and b) because it is a known fact that narcisissits are so in love that taking pity on the majority of readers have fulltime jobs, a spouse, and various amounts of children.
ALSO, I am of the very firm opinon that no novel is so great that you need over four hundred pages to write one. Starting with the nineteen century, I could probably cut from every novel ever written fifty to on hundred pages. BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. And why the hell must you describe every piece of furniture? Versimilitude is one thing; ocd clutter is another. Fictioner, heal thyself.
A slice of life is one thing, but dont keep restretching the bristling hide of the animal and get the hell off your IPAD and stop texting befre your fingertips leave your body, or is it booty???
Thinking about Save the Cat, I used to show my fiction writing students his story beat outline when we'd discuss plot and structure as a way to get things rolling because films are so familiar to them and often students would come back and report how disillusioning it was to see the moves so clearly once the template had been made clear to them.
I never know whether these 'how-to' books are useful or not when it comes to writing. I find a number of them not helpful in any practical way. The Writer's Way was the last straw for me and writing books. I couldn't bear the sanctimony or the expectation that I could kind of 'channel' my writing from some esoteric space. I enjoyed this piece. Thank you.
I see The Artist's Way as a roadmap to discovering your art. I really love the concept of the Artist date with yourself, seeing sights and getting your inspiration flowing. I didn't take the program literally, although I do some form of morning pages, just not as rigid as taught in the book. It's a take-what-you-need-and-leave-the-rest kinda book IMO
I very rarely read the kind of books you mention I find them about exciting as a parking . I'd rather reread the writers who inspire me and who taught me how to write'
I reread Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse every five years.I also reread a slim novel too few know about - Tom Kromer's Waiting For Nothing, 1935 written in the depths of the Depression while he was homeless. More than any other novel or the stories of Hemmingway and Raymond Carver, Kromer t aught me the value of the short sentence, as opposed to the diarrhetic endless long sentences that many novelists of today employ to a) cover up the face they arent saying much of anything, and b) because it is a known fact that narcisissits are so in love that taking pity on the majority of readers have fulltime jobs, a spouse, and various amounts of children.
ALSO, I am of the very firm opinon that no novel is so great that you need over four hundred pages to write one. Starting with the nineteen century, I could probably cut from every novel ever written fifty to on hundred pages. BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. And why the hell must you describe every piece of furniture? Versimilitude is one thing; ocd clutter is another. Fictioner, heal thyself.
A slice of life is one thing, but dont keep restretching the bristling hide of the animal and get the hell off your IPAD and stop texting befre your fingertips leave your body, or is it booty???
Thinking about Save the Cat, I used to show my fiction writing students his story beat outline when we'd discuss plot and structure as a way to get things rolling because films are so familiar to them and often students would come back and report how disillusioning it was to see the moves so clearly once the template had been made clear to them.