Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man’s life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.
Leo Tolstoy
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Creativity and the Educational System: Contradiction in Terms?
Do schools help creativity or hinder it? If they don’t, what can we do to fix that? If they do, what can we do to make them help even more?
We’ll ‘fess up to the fact that TVWriter™ has absolutely no clue about how to answer those questions from anything other than personal/anecdotal evidence. For our staff, that evidence is overwhelming: All of the regular TVWriter™ minions feel that their kindergarten thru high school educations worked against their ability to create, especially as writers. But, hey, your experience, like your gas mileage, may vary.
Peggy Bechko: Writer Techie?
Some authors actually are ‘techies’ others are, well, not.
I fall into the second catagory.
Why am I telling you this?
How to Edit Your Own Writing
In Their Own Writ Dept – 12/30/12
Trust your demon.
Roger Zelazny