George R.R. Martin In the end, Game of Thrones needed better writersThe Guardian - Nick CohenThe failure of the final season of Game of Thrones has its cheerful side. Despite the assumptions of “creative industry” executives, the collapse in advances to novelists, the downsizing of serious journalism,
Poetry Confessions of a Creative Writing Directoramericamagazine.org - John Poch May 03, 2019 In most university English departments, literature professors are greatly attracted to theory that is uninteresting, if not boring, to most …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCreative Writing Dear Will… creative writing courses matter more than ever (but not for the reasons you think)thebookseller.com - julia.bell_494181 We’ve never met, though I am familiar with your work, and your opinions about the world, as you have over the years, built up many column inches to …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPsychogeography Creative writing graduates will 'never make a living as novelists', says Selfthebookseller.com Will Self has declared literature to be "morphing into a giant quilting exercise", suggesting that no current creative writing graduates will make a …
Journalism The Weasel Voice in Journalismmedium.com - The Economist On May 14th, as Palestinians massed at the Gaza Strip’s border, Israeli soldiers fired on them, killing around 60 people. Shortly afterwards, the New …
Writing Don’t Worry about Slummingmedium.com - Jessica Wildfire You know, it does tend to suck when a mentor starts taking an active disinterest in your little victories. She makes a sarcastic remark about …
Grammar Everyone’s a copywriter. Right?medium.com - Clare Barry There’s a joke in the creative industry that “everyone is a designer”, making light of how infuriating it is to have someone (without a visual …
Graduate School This is Everything I Learned in Graduate Schoolmedium.com - Shaunta Grimes You’re probably asking yourself the wrong questions about whether you should get an MFA. I paid $40,000 for a master’s degree in writing for children …
Nanowrimo Writing Goals: Smash Targets and Become a Writing Powerhousegetfreewrite.com - Freewrite Store According toPsychology Today, setting achievable goals is a sure path to higher achievement. Every writer longs to be more productive and achieve …
Thesaurus Dictionary and Thesauruswritingcooperative.com - Dale E. Lehman I’m a “numbers person,” and my wife Kathleen is a “words person.” While I drive her nuts performing calculations in my head, she mystifies me tracing …
Amazon The Disastrous Decline in Author Incomes Isn’t Just Amazon’s Faultmedium.com - Carrie V Mullins The bookselling behemoth is making life harder for writers, but so is the public perception that art doesn’t need to be paid for There is a scene in …
How To Journal In The Morning (And Why)writingcooperative.com - Bryan Ye Use morning pages to unblock yourself from your inner critic Could bitching and moaning on paper for five minutes each morning change your life? As …
Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury’s Perfect Advice to Writers: Read, Write, Trustmedium.com - Shaunta Grimes In late 2016, I came across a Ray Bradbury quote that I must have already known, because it’s from Zen in the Art of Writing and that’s been one of …
Plagiarism Inside the Mind of a Plagiaristmedium.com - The Cut After recent scandals in the poetry world, the Cut spoke to three women with a history of plagiarism Late last month, the poet Ailey O’Toole was …
Non-fiction Why the Future of the Writing Business is ... Audio?spreaker.com - Brian Clark From the outside, Joanna Penn is a successful author of both fiction and non-fiction. And she’s an entrepreneur in that she controls her “products” …
Writing Eight Truths For Writing Teachers (Part One)Forbes - Peter GreeneWe live in a golden age of bad writing instruction. Learning to write for school was never a great path to excellent writing, but now that we have added learning to write for a standardized test, things
Writing Eight Truths For Writing Teachers (Part Two)Forbes - Peter GreeneEarlier this week we looked at the first four truths by which teachers of writing should be guided in this, the golden age of bad writing instruction. If your goal is to teach students to really write,
Anglophone Italian Speculative Microfiction in Translation: Three Writerswordswithoutborders.org - Fiction by Gabriella Ghermandi Speculative fiction is alive and well in Italy, with its Urania Prize for the best Italian science fiction going back to 1989 and a whole host of …
Popular Fiction Switch On Symbolelectricliterature.com I just finished writing a novel and am dreaming up a new one, and while I chafe at writing rules, your piece on moves in contemporary poetry gave me …
World Economy Science Fiction: The New Off-World EconomyThe Wall Street Journal. - Tom ShippeySpace exploration isn’t just romance; it’s not even just to keep the human species from having all its eggs in one basket. It’s also there, Daniel Suarez suggest, to save our economies from the day the
Geek 10 female fantasy writers to read after Game Of Thrones endsThe A.V. ClubWith HBO’s eighth and final season of Game Of Thrones coming to a close this weekend, millions of dedicated, dare we say obsessed, viewers of the fantasy juggernaut will soon be left with nothing to do
Technology Bad news, journalists: Robots are writing really good headlines nowTNW - Bryan ClarkJournalism is hard. Hours of research and writing culminate with publishing a piece with little more than blind faith that it’ll be well-received. Most aren’t. And for those that flop, it’s typically headline
Herman Wouk Herman Wouk, Perennially Best-Selling Author, Dies at 103The New York Times - By WILLIAM GRIMESHerman Wouk, whose taut shipboard drama “The Caine Mutiny” lifted him to the top of the best-seller lists, where he remained for most of a career that extended past his 100th year thanks to page-turners
Books Guy Gunaratne wins Dylan Thomas prize for 'urgent' London novelThe Guardian - Alison FloodDebut novelist Guy Gunaratne has won the £30,000 Swansea University International Dylan Thomas prize for In Our Mad and Furious City, an “urgent, timely and compelling” account of life on a London housing
Nauseated/Nauseous: The Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Debatequickanddirtytips.com - By Johanna Stoberock, Writing For Johanna Stoberock, author of "Pigs," discusses a distinct difference in how writers use language: the infamous descriptive versus prescriptive debate. …
Fantasy Why G.K. Chesterton and I agree about reading fantasyaleteia.org - Erin Rebar I have a dear friend who is against fantasy of any kind. He will defend to the death — I’m speaking figuratively here, of course — the view that we …
Creativity Being creative matters less than you think it doesFast Company - Art MarkmanYou might conclude that innovative companies must be full of creative people. Here’s why that’s not necessarily true. I live in Austin, Texas, where there are plenty of startups, each claiming to be more
Neuroscience Neuroscience Says This Is How to Take Notes More EffectivelyInc Magazine - Wanda ThibodeauxNo one can remember everything, and business often requires detail and accuracy. For both reasons, taking notes become super important for success in the office. To make sure your own notes are useful
Margaret Atwood Globe Book Club: Margaret Atwood on conservation, writing and Barbara Gowdy’s The White BoneThe Globe and Mail - Margaret AtwoodWhy did you choose Barbara Gowdy’s The White Bone for the book club? The mandate was: Pick a Canadian book – not from this season’s lists – that struck you when you first read it, that has stayed with
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