Najib AminyFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoIf You’re Having Fun, You’re Doing It Wrong: Andrew Kevin Walker On Screenwritingfastcocreate.com - Joe BerkowitzBy Joe Berkowitz8 minute Read Never underestimate the power of a mistake. Andrew Kevin Walker’s entire career may have hinged on one. It all started …
Najib AminyTips for becoming a better writer— from a terrible writer - Quartzverified_publisherQuartz - Tom AylingI was a certified bad writer. I even had documentation to prove it. Literally, legal documentation was ordered to confirm how terrible my skills were, I suppose, just in case anyone challenged this truth. My parents, or the school, or somebody paid thousands of dollars to have me tested, and then I …
Najib Aminy'How can they write about anything but pain?' The writing life in Afghanistanverified_publisherThe Guardian - Fazilhaq HashimiEmerging Afghan writer Fazilhaq Hashimi looks back at an upbringing surrounded by war, even in language – and reclaims his country’s past status as the land of poetry, story-telling, fables and folktales By Fazilhaq Hashimi for The Writing Life Around the World from Electric Literature, part of the …
Najib AminyThis Is Hemingway's Paris as Seen Through the Eyes of His Last Assistantverified_publisherEsquire - Lesley M.M. BlumeValerie Hemingway, who later married the novelist's son, gives Town & Country an intimate tour of the cafes and other Lost Generation haunts immortalized in A Moveable Feast. Soon after last fall's tragedy in Paris, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast shot to the top of bestseller lists. It is the …
Najib AminyA lonely story: the perils of writing in solitudeverified_publisherThe Guardian - Adrian McKintyIt worked for George Orwell and Henry Thoreau – but for Adrian McKinty, a retreat deep in rural Australia was a very sad tale indeed The life of the professional novelist is an agreeable one: you make your own hours, you do your best work in your pyjamas and Ugg boots, and no boss glares at you when …
Najib AminyLost script reveals what Orson Welles really thought about Ernest Hemingwayverified_publisherThe GuardianOrson Welles once described his relationship with Ernest Hemingway as “very strange”. The two men were friends, rivals and sometimes prickly antagonists. Now a previously unpublished manuscript has revealed just what the director thought about the novelist’s take on a common passion: Spain. The …
