Writing
fromHarvard Gazette
2 weeks ago'Talent can be a great hindrance ... It's really about endurance' - Harvard Gazette
Voice develops throughout a writer's life; focusing on finding a fixed voice early can limit growth.
Trope, POV, backstory, character arc. In the 30 years since I was a student of that benign, pipe-smoking, elbow-patched man of letters Malcolm Bradbury, the private language of creative writing workshops has taken over the world. What writers used to say to small circles of students in an attempt to help them improve their storytelling technique has become a familiar way, often parodic and self-knowing, of interpreting the grand and not-sogrand narratives of our time.