Tag: Artists on Craft
A Conversation with Megan Falley
I wish I’d known back then that people matter more than poems, and that to have the hardest life isn’t the way to win.
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An Interview with Steve Johnson
I also think it’s important not to be afraid to put your work out there, even if you are not sure about it; you will get useful feedback, and your feelings about having the work out there will tell you a lot.
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An Interview with Emily Bernard
The attention and accolades are wonderful. It’s so vindicating and it means a lot. But it doesn’t get up and write a sentence for you.
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A Conversation with Artist Catherine Bancroft
Painting seems to me fundamentally about joy – the child’s joy messing with thick gooey stuff, with the wildness of red, the coolness of blue, with putting your own mark down and having people react to it.
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Why I Hide My Truth
I can ramble until my sentences gel, molding the words and cadence and voice and structure like a sculpture.
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Saying Yes
Like a woman too long submerged under water, every greedy gulp of air is delicious and quenching. I no longer give up my time so easily.
Read More A Conversation with Shoba Narayan, Author and Journalist
Seriously though, my writing practice amounts to the same pattern: stare at the computer screen. Write a line. Hate it. Rewrite. Repeat.
Read More To Become a Successful Writer, Should You Write Daily?
This is the third in a four-part series of Q & A’s with authors who discuss both their writing process and their take on the practice of writing daily.
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Raw Materials
As my sense of creativity expanded, I discovered that identity isn’t something that you step into and zip up.
Read More Striving for Immortality
In the process, I’ve come to terms with a fact of literary life: If I’m lucky, I’ll make a little money, but, alas, I’m not gonna get rich. Nor will my name become a household word.
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