Category: Writing Tips
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Book Review: Ordinary Genius, A Guide for the Poet Within
“This book is a must-read for those curious about writing poetry…”
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When Creativity Is Exhausted
Truly, I tell you, you can easily spend a whole-life feeling behind everyone else or below their expectations, or you can embrace who you are and accept your whole self and not just what others accept about you.
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A Rambling Treatise on The Craft
Nothing arouses me more than when a reader, as if hoodwinked by a magician, thinks I have talent.
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Masters of The Craft: Stephen Crane, The Herald of Naturalism
All great writers master the craft, but Crane—like Whitman, like Dickinson, like Hemingway, like Hugo, like Pope, like Voltaire, like Homer, like Kafka, like Woolf—had a touch of the divine; that unteachable it factor, and it is among the company of these writers where he lives forever in the pantheon of literary immortality.