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...the “Secret” of Great Writing, and the Trap of Marketing Your Work
In 1987, Le Guin addressed the eternal question in an essay titled “Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?,” found in the altogether fantastic 1989 collection of her speeches, essays, and reviews, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (public library).
Noting that audiences frequently ask her the canonical question after lectures and talks, she considers the two reasons that make it impossible to answer:
The reason why it is unanswerable is, I think, that it involves at least two false notions, myths, about how fiction is written.
First myth: There is a secret to being a writer. If you can just learn the secret, you will instantly be a writer; and the secret might be where the ideas come from.
Second myth: Stories start from ideas; the origin of a story is an idea.
I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible...Read more
Attention Artists: The Obama Foundation Wants You
Artists have a new opportunity to network and develop projects aimed at civic good, courtesy of none other than Barack and Michelle Obama, via their foundation.
Twenty “community-minded rising stars,” among them “organizers, creators, educators, artists, entrepreneurs, and journalists,” will be selected for the first round of the Obama Foundation Fellowship. They will enjoy expense-paid trips to confabs with all the other fellows. The two-year, non-residential fellowship invites applicants from around the world.
The Obama Foundation specifically seeks artists who are at a turning point in their careers, but who curre
The language to my story, 3
Part 7 and final part of book 2 of my story I introduce a different language.
In truth, the earlier language I utilized is, in a way, tied to this one. One is the derivative of the other. Over time, the language though both are still similar in some ways, there are vast differences in others. If someone spoke the former language, a native of the latter wouldn't comprehend it and vice versa. And finally, if person who would hear the two languages wouldn't know the difference between the two.
I probably won't be using this latter language too much because I personally do not speak it, but when I was growing up, my family would have friends wh
when writing about marginalized groups
personally i think there are a few different things that writers (specifically white writers/writers that aren’t part of certain marginalized groups, regardless of what groups they are apart of) need to consider before writing whatever project they might be working on:
- if you have plans to write about a race different than your own, what do you actually know about that race? are you willing to go to places other than the internet to find out things you don’t know? when people of that race tell you you’re doing something wrong, will you listen? is your response going to be some kind of rehash of “i’m trying m
Fearing Fear Itself
Take, for example, Jeb Bush’s declaration that “this is an organized attempt to destroy Western civilization.” No, it isn’t. It’s an organized attempt to sow panic, which isn’t at all the same thing. And remarks like that, which blur that distinction and make terrorists seem more powerful than they are, just help the jihadists’ cause.
Think, for a moment, about what France is and what it represents. It has its problems — what nation doesn’t? — but it’s a robust democracy with a deep well of popular legitimacy. Its defense budget is small compared with ours, but it nonetheless
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