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WRITING TIP
FROM CATHERINE STINE
Your first task
is to put words down and get experience crafting characters, scenes, settings,
worlds and plot. Your next task is to read, read, read, for without reading a writer is lost. Get into a trusted writing
group where you can workshop regularly. It took me a while to understand what
genres were my heart, so it’s a
process of elimination as much as inspiration. As Joan Didion says, “I knew
what I wasn’t, and it took me some
years to discover what I was.” I have my writing students fill out a chart that
includes fears and obsessions. This will be their core material. Write what
only you can say, what unearths your
worst fears and secret preoccupations. Write from a raw place, just beyond what
you know for sure yet intuit strongly. Enter into a place of wonder and horror,
love and brutal honesty. Literally the bottom
line? Butt in chair. LOL.
CATHERINE STINE
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