The Writer's Craft My talk was on my practice of writing every day. I handed out copies of typed pages, typing being my way of working, and showed in one case how something looked before and after extensive revision. I also showed some work that is tedious wheel-spinning, and a piece that came out sufficiently good, in my judgment, not to be monkeyed with. Basically I was promoting the idea of writing daily--writing, as someone who's name I can't remember said, in order to find out what it is you have to write. It was fun. best, John John W. Marshall co-owns Open Books: A Poem Emporium (2414 N. 45th St., Seattle, WA 98103 / 206.633.0811) with Christine Deavel and is a former editor of the literary magazine, Fine Madness. His writing has appeared in Talisman, Hayden's Ferry Review, Switched-on Gutenberg, Poetry, and Ploughshares. His chapbook, Blue Mouth, (Wood Works, 2001) was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, 2001. Check out the Open Books newsletter for John's, and his partner Christine Deavel's, poetry book reviews. |
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The Writer's Craft My talk was on my practice of writing every day. I handed out copies of typed pages, typing being my way of working, and showed in one case how something looked before and after extensive revision. I also showed some work that is tedious wheel-spinning, and a piece that came out sufficiently good, in my judgment, not to be monkeyed with. Basically I was promoting the idea of writing daily--writing, as someone who's name I can't remember said, in order to find out what it is you have to write. It was fun. best, John John W. Marshall co-owns Open Books: A Poem Emporium (2414 N. 45th St., Seattle, WA 98103 / 206.633.0811) with Christine Deavel and is a former editor of the literary magazine, Fine Madness. His writing has appeared in Talisman, Hayden's Ferry Review, Switched-on Gutenberg, Poetry, and Ploughshares. His chapbook, Blue Mouth, (Wood Works, 2001) was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, 2001. Check out the Open Books newsletter for John's, and his partner Christine Deavel's, poetry book reviews. |
