Victoria Dixon says:
Thank you so much for this. I needed it more than I can say.
Jim says:
Many times I feel like I’m a hack, a fraud. It scares me. It paralyzes me sometimes. I do everything...
Sonja says:
Wow! That was great. So true, so true.
Basilis says:
The All is lost moment hunts me exactly at the finishing part of the book (last two or three chapters)....
Jerry Ellis says:
Thanks for responding to my post, Steven. You’re doing a magnificent service for writers. I...
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How do you find your writer’s voice? A lot of humbug has been written on this subject. The myth is that in finding that voice, the writer achieves a kind of personal enlightenment. She discovers “who she really is.”
Not in my experience. (more…)
I’ve been lucky in my career in having a few really terrific mentors–just guys who’ve taught me stuff about writing and work. The best is Norman Stahl, the cosmically brilliant documentarian, novelist and military historian. Do you know people who’ve got a lot of bullshit? Norm has the least of anybody I’ve ever known. In fact I would say Norm has absolutely NO bullshit. Here’s one thing he told me:
[This is "Writing Wednesdays," #3. Our winner--of a signed copy of The War of Art--is David Cutshall. Here's the fave quote he sent in: "Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some idea of what we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it." Thanks, David! The following takes off from there.]
