Gore Vidal on Style: Excellent advice for aspiring artists in all media
Monday, July 30th, 2007Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
From the NPR website: “You can’t judge a book by its cover, but librarian Nancy Pearl thinks the first line can tell you a lot. “I think when you read a good first line it’s like falling in love with somebody,” Pearl tells NPR’s Steve Inskeep. “Your heart starts pounding… it opens up all […]
I call phase one in the writer’s career the phase in which you just write for yourself and you get lots of inspiration and feel great until you show your stuff to a friend, and he/she makes suggestions. Hopefully, you don’t get too discouraged. You start to read other writers critically and grow famliar with […]
With private universities hyping their wares with PR and advertising, you would think that being in college is a mind enhancing experience. If you think that’s a bit facile, and you are having difficulties coping, healthyminds.org has lots of good information here. Mental Health and College
Early Poems of William Carlos Williams
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Sandra Pianin
There are two wonderful reasons to read the early poems of American poet, William Carlos Williams. The first is that Williams is probably the most original and most imitated poets of the 20th century. His poetry is firmly entrenched in the “here and now,” […]
Did an unschooled Elizabethan, who knew ‘little Latin and less Greek,’ truly compose the 36 or 37 plays attributed to William Shakespeare? The following excerpts from college English classes provide evidence a college degree was not a prerequiste for being an artist (which, unfortunately, many scholars do not consider when discussing the Bard–primarily because […]