Comments on: Poetry News For April 25, 2008 http://www.poetryhut.com/wordpress/index.php/42/1474/ Fresh Poetry News Hand-Picked Daily Fri, 16 May 2008 12:17:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: David M. Harris http://www.poetryhut.com/wordpress/index.php/42/1474/#comment-7053 David M. Harris Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:12:15 +0000 http://www.poetryhut.com/wordpress/index.php/42/1474/#comment-7053 On those "best writing tips:" Anthony Trollope, in An Autobiography, talks about how writers need cobbler's wax. You rub it on your pants, then on your chair, and then apply pants to chair. Same idea, just more interestingly put. (If you know what cobbler's wax is.) Other than that, the best two bits of advice I ever heard were: First, from Sarah Schulman, "If it doesn't hurt, you aren't doing it right." Second, attributed to Bruce Coville (but he denies being the source), "Follow your weirdness." On those “best writing tips:” Anthony Trollope, in An Autobiography, talks about how writers need cobbler’s wax. You rub it on your pants, then on your chair, and then apply pants to chair. Same idea, just more interestingly put. (If you know what cobbler’s wax is.)

Other than that, the best two bits of advice I ever heard were: First, from Sarah Schulman, “If it doesn’t hurt, you aren’t doing it right.” Second, attributed to Bruce Coville (but he denies being the source), “Follow your weirdness.”

]]> By: Rebecca Loudon http://www.poetryhut.com/wordpress/index.php/42/1474/#comment-7050 Rebecca Loudon Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:01:13 +0000 http://www.poetryhut.com/wordpress/index.php/42/1474/#comment-7050 Thank you, Jilly. love, Rebecca Thank you, Jilly.
love,
Rebecca

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