the art of writing
advice from writers, and more on writing
Brie Wolfson and
the art of writing
I’m open to writing about heavy things but want to deliver them gracefully.
Snippet form Kristoffer’s Year Review
What I really think good writing does: It enlivens that part of us that actually believes we are in this world, right now, and that being here somehow matters.
-George Saunders
If you revise trying to answer every objection anyone has to your work, you will write something unobjectionable. Nothing is worse than unobjectionable fiction.
Elizabeth McCracken • A Long Game
Feeling like you’re worth listening to is a byproduct of making hard decisions and teasing out of them cohesive and convincing personal stories that help you make sense of the world.