John Irving on the Writer's Craft
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I became a good storyteller for fear of boring people with lectures the way some teachers used to bore me.
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Hahahahahaha! My thoughts exactly.
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Very inspiring.
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Writers often have imaginary friends. They become the audience to our creation, listen and support us as we struggle to find words for what we wish to say.
We even write them notes sometimes, as if we're leaving notes on the fridge for a friend. We write "thanks for listening," "you help me think," and "gone to lunch."
It's really just a visionary way of talking to the whole world at once in the future.
The best imaginary friends, however, are the real ones who read what we write in the present.
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Sub me for the upcoming Woods Show, which will serve as a platform to exchange ideas in regards to stories. If you sub me as a fellow writer, I will promote your channel at some point on the show.
Cheers
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Sub me for the upcoming Woods Show, which will serve as a platform to exchange ideas in regards to stories. If you sub me as a fellow writer, I will promote your channel at some point on the show.
Cheers
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I like hearing from writers on how they write their stories.
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I love this man. It's so frustrating to hear writers say "Writing is a trip of a thousand miles in the pitch dark with 20 feet of headlight beams in front of you. " I can't work like that. Irving worked his whole way to "who were -- if there ever were -- Princes of Maine, Kings of New England" with the final sentence itself already before him like a beacon. Craft is not only what you put in, it's what you know you must leave out. You can test the work at every step against your known arc.
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The man is a genius!
moorje 5 years ago 12
I love his books!!
Jannyca 4 years ago 8