“Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotch-potch of impulses, our perpetual miracle.”—Virginia Woolf
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Barbara Ann Yoder
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Writers & the Writing Life
Staring Down the Challenges of Writing
Paul Auster reflects on the writing of his latest novel. There’s lots of wisdom in this brief video.
Tapping a Deep Reservoir for Writing
Here’s what I learned from hearing Gail Tsukiyama, award-winning author of seven novels, in conversation with the legendary Dorothy Allison at an intimate Hedgebrook event in San Francisco last week.
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“What you want to do is write the best book you can write. There is no timeline to that. Do the best you can do with what you have. Get rid of the timeline.”—Gail Tsukiyama
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“Find the entry point that will hold up … and the voice that will sustain the work.”—Dorothy Allison
A Brilliant Idea from Inky Girl
Plotting a novel? Check out this fun advice from cartoonist Debbie Ridpath Ohi.
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“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.”—Isadora Duncan
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“I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. It felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.”—Shilo Shiv Suleman
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I’m a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.—Sherman Alexie
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