Best Writing Tip: I Write As If Nobody Will See My Work
BY SIMON WINTER Bill Nighy, the famous English actor, recently celebrated his 74th birthday. Interviewed, he said, ‘I am a world-class procrastinator. I’m only an actor because I’ve been putting off being a writer for 35 years.’ He’s in good company. There must be millions of aspiring writers who’ve lacked sufficient impetus to put pen to […]
Get Your Dumb, Lazy Ass in There and Start Writing!
BY TOM LARSEN I wrote my first short story at ten years of age. Back then, magazines would have a back page full of two-inch ads for everything from X-ray-vision goggles to correspondence courses in taxidermy. One of the ads was from a company with an address in New York City – Lexington Avenue, so […]
Move Over, Hemingway. Kindergarteners Hold My Compass.
BY AMY HADDEN Writers. Each stroke of the marker let out a faint ‘shhh’ across the yellow chart paper. Its scent danced over the rainbow carpet, settling over the 20 criss-cross bodies sitting at my feet. ‘What do writers do?’ I asked. Energy surged. Hands rose, arms waved, eyes pleaded – eagerness known by every […]