Sharing my earlier post about Joni Mitchell, Dan over at Xark says not.
It doesn’t matter how you answer that question publicly. It matters how you answer it to yourself, and you’d better goddamn answer it.
The world is full of people who want to be writers, but don’t want to write. The airwaves are filled with [...]
For writing practice to be complete, we must give it away: the effort, the results, and identification with the results. Much of the happiness that total absorption in an activity brings is nullified by the belief that it is ours — that we know what we are doing. But anything we hold onto causes disharmony.
Dedicating [...]
I have mentioned here before Cabinet Magazine. It’s always got something evocative in it. I got a few pages into the most recent issue, and into Brian Dillon’s Inventory: Talk to the Hand, when story-writing took me away. Specifically, it was this part of an illustration sent me.
I’ve been having a good run lately with [...]
This was a line I found myself writing in something today and knew at once — and stopped — that it was one of those cases of projecting onto your characters. You know, like She stared blankly, unable to come up with a single thing to say; or He went into the kitchen and began [...]