I am not a poet. I would never claim to be. If writing were music, I prefer to play conductor to soloist. My fiction would be a symphony, not a piece for solo piano. But the craft of a prose writer also involves cadences, subtle pauses for thought, deeper undercurrents and expressions that run just [...]
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The Poet in All of Us
Posted in Creative Writing, Great Writers, inspiration, literary genres, Literary Performance, Reading Aloud, writers organizations, Writing Events, tagged Creative Writing, Genius, Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Great Writers, great writing, inspiration, literary genres, making connections, PEN World Voices Festival, Reading Aloud, writers organizations, Writing Events on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Plodding toward Genius
Posted in Creative Writing, Great Writers, inspiration, Publishing, Writers Groups, tagged Creative Writing, Creativity, Genius, Great Writers, inspiration, Mentoring on May 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A recent op-ed in the New York Times tells us that modern research dispels the myth of genius. Apparently genius can be nurtured with the right set of circumstances, the right timing and mentoring. I find it interesting that the example given is a young person with a gift for words. Ah, but wouldn’t it [...]
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