einfetzengemeinschaft: “When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard …
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I’d just say to aspiring journalists or writers—who I meet a lot of—do it now. Don’t wait for permission to make something that’s interesting or amusing to you. Just do it now. Don’t wait. Find a story idea, start making it, give yourself a deadline, show it to people who’ll give you notes to make …
Ira Glass … has said that “the power of anecdote is so great that it has a momentum in and of itself.” He contends, “no matter how boring the facts are,” with a well-told story, “you feel inherently as if you are on a train that has a destination.” Your Brain on Story Complement with …
Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. Colum McCann Zoli. (2007) (via amandaonwriting)
Margaret Atwood on The Blind Assassin – Guardian Book Club
Margaret Atwood described how she approached and drafted The Blind Assassin for the Guardian (link above.) The text really conveys how the right structure turns a good idea into a great story.Margaret Atwood on The Blind Assassin – Guardian Book Club
The story is not in the words; it’s in the struggle. Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
CLARITY AND CHAOS 