
Ursula K. Le Guin on How to Become a Writer

These are fantastic questions, and I have to be honest that I’ve never not had another job in addition to writing fiction. And, so, when I meet someone, I generally just say that I teach, because that’s my 9 to 5 job that pays our bills. It’s not that I don’t think I’m a writer or even feel weird about asserting it, but most people who ask are just... See more
Kevin Wilson • On What Makes a Good Writer with Kevin Wilson
From the Archive | How To Be A Writer
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The way I see it, the “E.T. method” is their sole option. Their only recourse is to throw open their garage doors, drag out whatever they have stored away to that point—even if it looks like no more than a pile of useless junk—and slave away until the magic takes hold. No other approach can help us contact distant planets. We can only try our best
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You look up and stare out the window again, but this time you are drumming your fingers on the desk, and you don’t care about those first three pages; those you will throw out, those you needed to write to get to that fourth page, to get to that one long paragraph that was what you had in mind when you started, only you didn’t know that, couldn’t k
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