Such a strange day here. It is snowing. My friends are abuzz with the news of BH's passing.
Here are a bunch of famous writer's rules for writing fiction. What are yours?
And here's part two (including Joyce Carol Oates)
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just pretend nick is rebecca and meagan is tracy and bearden is hiding behind michael's diploma and that's us
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4 comments:
My only rule these days is to keep going while it's hard and stop while it's easy. Other people have said that rule better. I don't know if it's making me write more but it is making me feel better about what I manage to do. Post snow pictures!
My rule this semester is to write alongside my creative writing students. To do all of the assignments and exercises I assign to the. I've got about a 60% success rate. I did write some poems, though, and I submitted them everywhere. That felt good.
I'm so excited about the poem submitting.
My new rule is that I don't have to only be inspired by fiction. Which is dumb to have to articulate to myself, but there have been times when absorbing myself in visual art or non-fiction felt like a betrayal, like "cheating on" fiction, our mistress and master.
So another question: which of these rules resonated with you, inspired you, made you laugh, stuck out for whatever reason? I've haven't yet got through them but plan to tomorrow.
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