Ireland has a rich literary history and boasts some of the most prolific writers of all time. From Joyce to Stoker, Boland to Shaw, The Green Isle is deservedly famous for its novelists and poets. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we decided to dig up some tips from a few of our favorite Irish writers. May … Continue reading Writing Tips from the Irish
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How To Write A Novel (It’s easier than you think!)
Here's our member Antoine Wilson demonstrating how to write a novel. Watch and learn. https://vimeo.com/40540482
George Saunders on Fiction
"Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, … Continue reading George Saunders on Fiction
Meditation on Ruin
by Jay Hopler It’s not the lost lover that brings us to ruin, or the barroom brawl, or the con game gone bad, or the beating Taken in the alleyway. But the lost car keys, The broken shoelace, The overcharge at the gas pump Which we broach without comment — these are the things that eat … Continue reading Meditation on Ruin
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“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.” —Virginia Woolf
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. Cyril Connolly
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