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Jan 23, 2015 · She didn’t because of me. Her words will forever stay in my head “The thing about writers writing about writing is that it comes out as pretentious and self-serving.” Since then, every play I’ve seen like this one I’ve held to that. I would say very rarely she’s been wrong. Well, Hugh Leonard’s “DA” dares to say different.
Feb 13, 2009 · Thu 12 Feb 2009 19.01 EST. For a time, in the mid- to late 1970s, Hugh Leonard (a pseudonym for John Keyes Byrne), who has died aged 82, was hailed as the best living Irish dramatist. He was ...
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- Write with The Door Closed…
- …And Rewrite with The Door Open
Only those with the time to read have the time and tools to write. That’s how King puts it. It makes sense: Reading expands your knowledge of grammar, sentence structure, storytelling, character development, and more. Additionally, through reading, you’ll discover what you like and don’t like, which can influence how you write.
When King said, “Write with the door closed,” he meant, don’t take input from others before completing your first draft. Why seek criticism for something that isn’t finished? Feedback at this stage of the writing process might interrupt that initial surge of inspiration. Worse, you might end up compromising your authentic voice to earn approval fro...
Only when your first draft has been completed can you seek feedback from others. Because the draft has been completed, the people reviewing your work will have a clearer idea of what you’re trying to accomplish. Instead of intercepting your message (as they would have if you let them criticize an unfinished draft), they can instead help you find th...
Nov 23, 2020 · 4. Paragraphs. King argues that the paragraph (not the sentence) is the basic unit of writing (“the place where coherence begins and words stand a chance of becoming more than mere words”). “Paragraphs are almost as important for how they look as for what they say” ⇒ “they are maps of intent”.
Mar 14, 2017 · I think one thing with writing that kind of gets lost is that you can focus on one sentence by an author, especially in creative writing classes, or one passage, and you lose the bigger picture to ...
Aug 19, 2012 · August 19, 2012. ADVERTISEMENT. From Buzzfeed comes this collection of [quotes from writers talking about writing] (http://bit.ly/Po3Q2D). Jack Shepherd cites everyone from Ernest Hemingway to Elmore Leonard, and from Toni Morrison to Erica Jong.
Jul 2, 2018 · What did reading do for Douglass? It made him hate slavery more than ever. He writes, “that very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come, to torment and sting my soul to unutterable anguish.” Ability to see his own condition from other perspectives made him alive to other possibilities.
