successful writers have overcome the difficulties
28th April 2017 | for Creatives | creating isn't easy, magic/mystery of creating/art, the successful artist, writing, never stop LEARNING, formal arts education, Dorothea Brande |
[The student writer] only vaguely knows that successful writers have overcome the difficulties which seem almost insuperable to him; he believes that accepted authors have some magic, or at the very lowest, some trade secret, which, if he is alert and attentive, he may surprise. He suspects, further, that the teacher who offers his services knows that magic, and may drop a word about it which will prove an ['Open, Says Me'] to him. In the hope of hearing it, or surprising it, he will sit doggedly through a series of instructions in story types and plot forming and technical problems which have no relation to his own dilemma. He will buy or borrow every book with 'fiction' in the title; he will read any symposium by authors in which they tell their methods of work. In almost every case, he will be disappointed.
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