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by Richard Vanek
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On writing

Wed 15th Dec, 2010
00:57
 
 

For some time I am reading and enjoying the book On writing written by Stephen King. It is really interesting to imagine that he is writing about photographing and not about writing. It all perfectly fits. In so many views I fully agree with him. Well read a little piece:

If it seems to work, it can stay. If it doesn’t, well, that DELETE key is on your machine for a good reason. There is absolutely no need to be hidebound and conservative in your work, just as you are under no obligation to write experimental, nonlinear prose because The Village Voice or The New York Review of Books says the novel is dead. Both the traditional and the modern are available to you. Shit, write upside down if you want to, or do it in Crayola pictographs. But no matter how you do it, there comes a point when you must judge what you’ve written and how well you wrote it.

 
 
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