Tag: creative writing
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“Your Darlings”
by Nicholas Wolf In this blog post, I will explore and deconstruct the aphorism “kill your darlings”. This aphorism is commonly directed at new and inexperienced writers. In many cases, the “darling” is commonly a sentence or paragraph which has invaded the writer’s mind like an earworm. This orthographic possession occurs because writers interpret the…
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Post-Mortem of the Author
by John Bảo I love listening to music. I listen every chance I can get, even if I’m working and require a deeper focus. There’s a genre and mood for whatever I need. I’m also someone who loves to explore genres deeply, to read about their histories and the artists who shaped them. City pop…
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A Half-Baked Cake Tastes So Good
by Chelsea Kowalski Why is writing so difficult? It should be the most natural thing; we come up with story after story as children and yet as an adult when you give yourself the label of “writer”, you start to feel like a fish on land. It can’t be that we don’t have anything to…
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The Relationship of the Written Word and the Image
by Paavan Agarwal Sometimes when I sit down to write or to read something, I start thinking about the relationship between writing and images and get irresolutely stuck in that conceptual rabbit hole. How can or should one describe a sight or a vision using the written word? Ezra Pound called it “phanopoeia”, “the throwing…
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The Wane of Monoculture and The Desire to be Known
by Esi Aboagye I’ve always been struck by this quote from All About Eve (1950). It’s said by Eve Harrington, an ingénue desperate for stardom. She plots and schemes throughout the film to take over the fans of a declining star. This desire for adoration propels her throughout the narrative and is her major character flaw. It’s an acclaimed…
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On First Drafts, Possibility and Spongebob
by Emma Graham Writing is, on paper, (ok, please forgive me for the horrible pun), such a magical and endlessly generative thing. Don’t believe me? Ok, let me sell it to you “sell me this pen” style: Are you with me? Imagine, with just one stack of paper and a pen, you could write anything.…
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Dispatches from the Submissions Process
by Leah Duarte I’ve been submitting my work again. After two years where my focus was on writing, then editing, my own manuscript as well as the WiT Forest Floor anthology, I was accepted into a poetry mentorship opportunity. With some coaxing, I acknowledged it was time to put myself out there again. I had…
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Immortality in Writing
By Lauren Redwood For centuries, the publishing of any form has been used to record history and the lives of humans that lived in those periods. We write to express our own emotions, to capture the beauty and travesty around us, and to immortalize the present moment. During times such as now, it is so…
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A Pulitzer Prize for Your Thoughts
By Chelsea Kowalski There’s a well-known story about the origins of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee that is something of a writer’s fantasy. Lee was working customer service jobs in New York and publishing short stories on the side in 1956. She managed to get a literary agent (no small feat!) and one…
