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How to write a great novel
Bookninja —
The WSJ asks a bunch of bigtime authors how to write a great novel . I think we all know the answer to that. Be a man . Or don’t. But be something. Or don’t. Sit with your hand up in the air. Bend paperclips into talismans from demonic cults. Use notecards, computers, typewriters, biros. Write in the early morning, late at night, in the basement, garret, at the kitchen table. Use folders, dividers, colour-coded pencils. Eat burritos before you write and then hold it in to create a sense of urgency. Get out the scissors, glue and paste. What the fuck? How about this one: ...
HOW THEY WRITE
The Elegant Variation —
Pamuk, Baker, Atwood, Ishiguro and others on how they write.
Booker-prize winner Michael Ondaatje's preferred medium is 8½-by-11-inch Muji brand lined notebooks. He completes the first three or four drafts by hand, sometimes literally cutting and pasting passages and whole chapters with scissors and tape. Some of his notebooks have pages with four layers underneath. ...
Playing Dress Up (Literally): How Writers Write
Isak —
... Alexandra Alter has an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal about the unusual tactics that seventeen writers have for crafting their fiction. Junot Díaz, Edwidge Danticat, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hillary Mantel, Richard Powers, and Orhan Pamuk are among those who divulge their secrets. Here's part of Colum McCann's story: ...
"They're speaking in a moron language"
Light reading —
Writers' habits (courtesy of TEV).
Autumn Leaves and Sunday Smatterings
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind —
... Nicholson Baker, Richard Powers, Junot Diaz, Laura Lippman and Dan Chaon are among the major writers telling the Wall Street Journal how they write their novels. ...
Breaking: Writers Are Eccentric And Enjoy Bathtubs, Charts
The Rumpus.net —
... The Wall Street Journal recently interviewed a bunch of writers to see how they do it. Of course, they called it “How to Write a Great Novel,” but I’m not sure if trying to copy exactly what these writers do is really recommended. It’s fun, though, in a voyeuristic sort of way. Here’s a few excerpts: ...
ampere’s and
3:AM Magazine —
... Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web:
Dalkey Archive Press are interviewing contributors to the Aleksandar Hemon edited Best European Fiction 2010 (so far, includes Alasdair Gray)
& A Piece of Monologue on Maurice Blanchot’s The Writing of Disaster
& How to write a great novel (how Nicholson Baker, Junot Diaz, Russell Banks, John Wray work)
& Noah Cicero’s Best ...
Bookmarks: a small town book tour, inappropriate books for kids, and Walt Whitman selling jeans
Quill & Quire —
... Kazuo Ishiguro “auditions” characters to narrate his novels. Colum McCann will print out chapters of his incomplete book, staple them together, and take them to Central Park, pretending to be reading someone else’s work. The Wall Street Journal interviews 11 top authors about their writing habits ...
OMNIVORE: The story on the page
bookforum.com —
... by Salman Rushdie to The Paris Review Interviews , edited by Philip Gourevitch. How to write a great novel : From writing in the bathroom (Junot Diaz) to dressing in character (Nicholson Baker), 11 top authors share their methods for getting the story on the page (and from Bookforum , Craig Seligman on ...
How writers write
Red Room - Where the Writers Are —
I love this Wall St. Journal article about writers sharing their processes. Maybe it’s the onset of fall, the recent time change, or the fact that Mercury was in retrograde for a while — but I’ve found that this article has really resonated with fellow writers, not only for the insider’s view into some of our favorite writers’ practices but for the comfort of knowing that there’s no “right way” to do things, and that the work can sometimes be a struggle for even the most successful writers. Take Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, who “shuts himself in the bathroom and perches ...
