Tag: creative-writing
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The Dreaded Blank Page
So, you’re a writer. See if this sounds familiar. You stare at it and stare at it, and it seems that it stares back, that blasted cursor winking at you, daring you to write something — a word, a phrase. Anything. It’s at that point that you remember that you haven’t fed the cat in…
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Fiction, Literary Criticism, and the Writing Thereof
Some years ago I had a conversation with a literature professor about writing in which he maintained that literary criticism is every bit as “creative” as the crafting of fiction. I understood his point. To take a text and tease meaning from it that perhaps no one else has gleaned, and then shape a well-conceived argument…
pamela marcantel 