a grocery list is worth writing.
Not to beat a dead horse but writers are influenced by two things - other writers and culture. Some are more influenced by the culture around...
Sorry, but this is a very silly and superficial view of these writers. And an entirely incorrect one. Here is a Paris Review article on Hunter...
Can you name a good writer who has admitted to never reading a novel? I think your challenge is refuted by common sense. Sure, there are some...
Yeah, I agree. In another thread I brought up how much literature has changed since the late 1970's. In 1972 Hemingway's "Islands in the Stream"...
How much editing do you do? You and Garball sound like you buy into the instant genius fallacy. That a great writer can roll out of bed and write...
The difference is, as many have pointed out, posting your work here (or anywhere on the internet) makes it published and thus not appealing to...
What? Did you actually read that before posting it? It's completely contradictory.
This is VERY weird.
I don't know actually. It depends on what you want to write. It also depends on how you view the relationship between what's already been written...
Subconsciously you are probably influenced by a lot more than you think you are.
makes the epic poets of antiquity even more brilliant, doesn't it? No influence to draw from, no template, just winging it. Brilliant.
Road to Los Angeles is good as well. Dago Red too. He is, I agree, criminally neglected. I think this is because he is a Los Angeles writer and...
Like a parking attendant waving his arms in the air and screaming, "you can't park there" they would be saying with just as much irritability (or...
Separate names with a comma.
