writing, making room for what is unconscious. Early on in the drafting process, I was under the influence ... only when I must. Writing is seldom joyful for me, and yet I feel compelled by the process to know why, ... “writing,” even as I acknowledge they are necessary to this process of deciding what becomes the surface, the ...
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January’s Wired, Clive Thompson writes that these brief interchanges do keep us engaged in an ... up-to-the-moment process of gathering news. He further suggests that they prompt us to be more interested, not ... years. Will Wlizlo responds in the Utne Reader. He writes, “It would seem that painstakingly-crafted ...
well as verbal descriptions. He writes of a bag lady: “Her hair is dreaded into one ugly gray-brown ... try to construct a unified theory of cab driving, and though most readers will come to love Hack ’s ... was his writing that grabbed attention. The book grew from Samarov’s blog, where he continues to ...
Page 99 from Issue 52 possible the primary process of his own thinking, unedited. And, as it is ... becoming increasingly clear, day thinking is like night thinking, if we let it come through unedited. ... Euro-American have also known, and practiced, performances based directly on primary process activity. 8. This ...
in story is what most people do: the ability to both go somewhere I ’ m not and learn about myself in ... thing just exploded. It was, in part, because the media were ready to write about this stuff. And, added ... funny, kind of crazy story for adults on Twitter, and a lot of people want to talk to me about it.” His ...
understanding them, empathizing with them, or learning about their lived experiences. For one thing, our ... New York writing pedigree, name-drops like crazy, and mourns the death of her friend who slept with ... friends with,” but who cares? They’re characters that we should still read about and learn from. Whether ...
wound of losing her father, Lilly Dancyger’s writing is at once propulsive and meditative. She weaves ... your writing group influence the writing of the manuscript? LD: I joined my writers’ group about four ... years ago, when I was seven or eight years into the process of writing the book. I had a "finished ...
genres—fiction, drama, poetry and nonfiction. Her experience teaching writing is equally broad. She’s taught at ... Tallahassee; and now at Northwestern University. Her book Writing Fiction: A Guide to the Narrative Craft ... stands as the most widely used writing textbook in the country. I spoke with Burroway about teaching ...
as a break during her own writing work, as a mind-clearing alternative to the cluttering effect of ... website, a poetry novice describes her self-guided instruction in the genre. Memoirist Emily Gould read ... they were originally published. She writes: It turns out that unless you make a concerted effort in the ...
reality is that the time has past come. I learned to accept that writing may always be an avocation rather ... something about the tension between writing and the work writers have to do to pay the bills, stay sane, or ... both. After getting fired from her day job as a research assistant, she found herself wondering what it ...