The Workshop
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SummaryWriting is not for the faint-hearted. Writers do the hard work of expelling ignorance, trying to change the way people think while taking in every chance to learn about the lives of others. The business of fiction is people, but in order to write about people, one has to understand them well. T.S. Eliot once said that this process, the course of a writer creating something that mimics life is a “continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality,”1 because he must be thoroughly absorbed in what he does in order for it to be effective. A writer never stops writing. Leaving the desk doesn’t end the process. A true writer continues to write in his head long after he’s left the typewriter—his “relationship with the world is one of narrative.”2 The test of character involved is immense yet there must be something worth the struggle; there wouldn’t be any writers otherwise. Committed writers find satisfaction in what they do. Anne Sexton found confessional poetry meaningful because it showed her who she was. Lee Smith writes because she sees something “wonderful about being able to get inside the skin of people unlike you.”
Keywords: Tom Grimes, Frank Conroy, Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ismail Muhammud, Personal interview, Stephen Koch. The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop
Keywords: Tom Grimes, Frank Conroy, Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ismail Muhammud, Personal interview, Stephen Koch. The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop
Table of Contents
- Great writing depends on the writer's imagination.
- The brilliance of workshop comes from its organicity.
- The subsequent paragraphs relate only to prose-writing.
- Valerie Brelinski's workshop took off on a similar start in that discussions had to be jump-started at times.
- The reason why writers attend workshops is revision.
- A surprising outcome of workshop.
- The more I think about it, the more I believe that the stories I write aren't really fiction.
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