It’s a myth that good writing requires solitude. Or, at least, it’s a half-truth. When I teach, I tell my students this: We write in community. What I mean by this is that writing is an act of connection, a…
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Why I Write by Participants in Building a Writing Class with Anne Liu Kellor
Posted Tue, 11/21/2017 - 7:49am by Guest Contributor | Category: #KeepWriting, Hugo Classes, Writing
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The passages that follow are excerpts from a ten-minute in-class free write from the prompt Why do you write? Afterwards, we read aloud in a round and the energy in the room was palpable. I feel so grateful each time…
Keep Writing: Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, fiction writer and Hugo House instructor
Posted Mon, 4/03/2017 - 10:54am by Molly Woolbright | Category: #KeepWriting, Writing, Writing Advice
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“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald For years I’ve kept this quote pinned to the wall above my writing desk. In the past, I understood it to be about the murk…
Keep Writing: Anastacia-Renee, poet and Hugo House writer-in-residence
Posted Tue, 3/07/2017 - 1:41pm by Molly Woolbright | Category: #KeepWriting, Writing, Writing Advice
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In my personal life, there are times when I feel stretched between boiling over with gratitude and quoting my grandmother, who once said in the 80’s, “The world is going to hell in a hand basket,” after watching an episode…
Keep Writing: Peter Mountford, fiction writer and Hugo House instructor
Posted Thu, 2/23/2017 - 2:26pm by Molly Woolbright | Category: #KeepWriting, Writing, Writing Advice
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In a recent meeting of my yearlong manuscript class, when I asked how everything was going, everyone began unloading about how paralyzed they feel, as writers, and how they are fixated on the news. It wasn’t the first time I’d…
Keep Writing: Jane Wong, poet and Hugo House instructor
Posted Fri, 1/20/2017 - 2:32pm by Molly Woolbright | Category: #KeepWriting, Writing, Writing Advice
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Sometimes, there are no words. Sometimes, there’s just noise: a sigh, a shout, a whimper. And in that inability to speak, I try to listen closely to the sounds I make—the sounds that arise from fear, worry, unease, and…
Keep Writing: Sonora Jha, Hugo House writer-in-residence
Posted Thu, 1/19/2017 - 11:02am by Molly Woolbright | Category: #KeepWriting, Writing, Writing Advice
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You are allowed four days of despair. I tell myself this when I get a rejection letter or an editor says “you need to overhaul this,” or, well, when an incompetent and despotic man becomes the leader of the…