“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.” ~ Steve Jobs
Over the next few months, Salon will report on the “hollowing out” of the so-called creative class. Here’s a taste from this first installment in the series of articles: “for those who deal with ideas, culture and creativity at street level—the working- or middle-classes within the creative class—things are less cheery. Book editors, journalists, video store clerks, musicians, novelists without tenure — they’re among the many groups struggling through the dreary combination of economic slump and Internet reset. The creative class is melting, and the story is largely untold.”
With wealthy patrons in short supply, some writers are using Kickstarter to reach out to millions of potential donors.
Babies take AWP. See which writers have signed an online petition for onsite childcare at the conference.
It’s called Bad Advice Wednesday, but this advice is anything but.
Can you finish this analogy? Wanting to write without wanting to read is like wanting to ____ without wanting to ____.
I haven’t been this excited about a brother-sister team since Jack and Meg White burst onto the indie music scene…except, wait, Jack and Meg White aren’t brother and sister. The Percys take it!
See how various writers finish sentence prompts such as “The thing I’m happiest about in my writing career is…” and “The coolest thing I’ve ever done as a result of my writing is…” (Rita Dove’s “coolest thing” anecdote involves Big Bird.)
A recent survey has revealed that writers and editors drink a lot of coffee. Not exactly news. But who knew writers and editors were so frou-frou about it?