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Month: December 2011

I don’t teach creative writing …

December 14, 2011Dance of Love, The, Things I'd Love to Have Made, Writing

… I teach patience and stubbornness. So said Richard Bausch, who writes as well as teaching writing. Without patience and stubbornness a writer of fiction would die (fictionally speaking). We need patience while we dream up our characters and discover who they are. We need, as I heard Jeanette Winterson say at the London Book … Read More

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