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Letter to a Young Writer, in the Form of a Top Ten List
Dear 23 year-old Antoine Wilson, Here’s a list of ten things you might consider but probably won’t: 10. When you pick up the pen, put down the pipe. 9. If something you’ve written is blowing your mind, it’s probably a cliche. You just don’t know it yet. 8. Your most interesting material is all around [...]
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Hero to Zero
Ever find yourself comparing your work to the work of some master you’ve always admired? The worst possible time to do this (and therefore the time it’s likeliest to happen) is when you’re working on a first draft. The double-worst time is when those first draft pages are the middle pages of a novel, when [...]
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On Method
Sometimes people ask me how I write. My stock response is “ass in chair.” Phillip Roth said that the real reason writers want to know other writers’ methods is to find out whether they’re as crazy as they themselves are. I’ve always been curious for more pragmatic reasons. Here’s a piece of my method. Every [...]
Yeps
No one who thinks that he can write like Nabokov has anything intelligent to say about him. From DG Myers’ blog post Ten Rules for Criticism.
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Post from iPhone
This novel isn’t going to write itself. (Turns out.)
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APS
Yo, check the TOC for APS#9. Now you can see what I’ve been up to. Hanging in the aether (or on a hard drive somewhere) with TCB, Richard Powers, David Shields, my old friend Sally Keith, Derek Walcott, and others.
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Slow Boat
Well, I’ve been writing. Not here. So that’s a good thing. Unless you enjoy reading this blog. If you want to complain about it in person, come see me at the LA Times Festival of Books this coming weekend. I’ll be on a panel called “Fiction: Breaking Point” with Hari Kunzru, John Wray, and John [...]
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