Down beneath our judging minds lies a whole new landscape of creative possibility for our writing and our lives.
Writing as a tool for transformation.
This approach to writing grew from my experience of the culture of criticism and of writing to outside standards that prevailed when I was a young writer. At that time, I was writing fiction, publishing in small magazines and attending writer’s conferences where everyone submitted work to people who didn’t know them and received criticism in return, much of which was overzealous and off the mark. I found the whole experience unsatisfying and a little sad.
My turning point came at a writer’s conference where I attended a workshop led by a well-respected literary writer whose first published story appeared in The New Yorker. On a break, she told me that my work had great promise and she offered to mentor me.
“I’ll help you write a New Yorker story,” she said.
When I asked what she meant by that, she told me how she had come to be published there:
My turning point came at a writer’s conference where I attended a workshop led by a well-respected literary writer whose first published story appeared in The New Yorker. On a break, she told me that my work had great promise and she offered to mentor me.
“I’ll help you write a New Yorker story,” she said.
When I asked what she meant by that, she told me how she had come to be published there:
books i wrote using this approach.
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