I talked to a friend who wants to start a blog and wanted some advice on that—how to find her voice and so on. A few random thoughts:
It is the stuff about you that is odd that is interesting. So, don’t think to much about how you are supposed to do it, or what the genre convetions are. Just try to amuse yourself.___LIN... See more
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the primary concern of the writer should revolve around the aesthetic elements of the work which are ultimately a way of containing / directing what emerges from the darkness of the writers interior.
lately I’ve been thinking of great writing as work that emerges from a very distinctive, very deep subjectivity; and “craft” is about finding the ideal... See more
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David Foster Wallace, on working your way back to writing for yourself and rediscovering the fun of the craft:
At some point you find that 90% of the stuff you're writing is motivated and informed by an overwhelming need to be liked. This results in shitty fiction. And the shitty work must get fed to the wastebasket, le... See more
Henrik Karlssonsubstack.comThe answer, the truth, is . . . you find your Voice by writing. And writing. And writing. And writing. But NOT by writing the way the books tell you to write. You find it by writing YOUR way. That’s how you discover your Voice. How can you ever expect to find your Voice if you’re always writing screenplays in the same generic way the books tell you
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