He who writes badly thinks badly
When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.
Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plasticsand sink them' then 'Where is the sandman hiding the dirt. ' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.
When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.
Nature never writes a blind hand.
I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and the fields of England. Her richly complex characters walk right off the page and into our imaginations, as we fight with them, farm with them, cook with them. I devoured this dazzling novel.
One writes to find words' meanings.