Quality I – Critiques

Filed under craft & technique, tips & advice, Writing - on Writing by on July 16, 2010 at 4:21 pm {no comments}
oct first 004 [640x480]-sepia

Last time, I wrote about the benefits of quantity as a beginning writer. The more you write, the more experience you gain, the more you know, the easier the process becomes. Practice, practice, practice. But, of course, that’s not the whole story. Improvements in quality come mainly from repeated revisions. That doesn’t mean endless revisions. [...]

Full Story »

Quantity

Filed under craft & technique, processing, tips & advice, Writing - on Writing by on June 29, 2010 at 8:23 pm {3 comments}
pages thru glass-sepia

Some people don’t want you to know this, but writing is like most things*: the more you do it, the easier it gets. Way back in the 90′s when, for the first time in my life, I decided to take writing seriously, I signed-up for classes. One of my teachers, an assistant professor of literature [...]

Full Story »

home