Little did she know how long it would take her to learn to write and to tell that story.
Friday, November 17, 2017
How to Get Enough Distance from Your Story to Actually Write It
In
January 2001, physician and writer, Therese Zink, lived through a
traumatic experience: While on an international aid mission in
Chechnya, her boss was kidnapped. "That experience got me writing,"
Therese says. "I'd kept a journal since a creative-writing class in
high school twenty-some years earlier and dabbled at times with more
creative efforts. But after the kidnapping, I had to write."
Friday, November 10, 2017
The Magic of Showing Up--How to Design and Commit to a Writing Practice
What's
the difference between a writer who gets a book finished and a writer
who never does? A writing practice. Believe it--there's nothing more
important. Not talent, not a great idea. It's down to basics:
putting self in chair, putting hands on keyboard or taking up the pen,
and staying there past all the internal whining and doubt and misery to
actually put words on the page.
But we all whine. We all get up and sharpen every pencil in the house sometimes, instead of writing.
But we all whine. We all get up and sharpen every pencil in the house sometimes, instead of writing.
Friday, November 3, 2017
Pros and Cons of Using Past or Present Tense
A
blog reader sent me a great question this week: "My writing group
discussed present versus past tense when writing memoir. A group
member's editor had her switch her present tense chapters to past
tense. She had some of each. Are there virtues of each or should
memoir always be past tense?"
I get this question a lot in classes, so it's always good to know the pros and cons of using past or present tense.
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