March 2011 Blog Posts (2)

A question of self

Interested how one issue keeps coming back time and time again for the writers using this site - and it is one that fascinates me. The question asks how much of ourselves do we place into our fiction? It's back at the top of our forums sections at the Global Short Story Competition's social networking site after one of the members started a discussion on the subject. A similiar discussion that we had a few weeks ago was equally fascinating.

My personal view has always been that, as…

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Added by John Dean on March 22, 2011 at 11:22 — No Comments

Learning to learn

I teach aspiring writers all over the world and one thing that comes through is a strong sense that just about all of them recognise that they are still learning. I think most writers feel that. They will continually criticise their own work and learn from the experience.

It's a fine line between that approach and a lack of confidence, which you see in writers at classes who say 'I do not really want to read this out because it is not as good as everyone else's.' I understand that. I…

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Added by John Dean on March 9, 2011 at 15:30 — No Comments

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