#Writing Craft

When Mastery Threatens the Urge to Create

Raymond Chandler’s remark turns a familiar ambition upside down: the more a writer learns about fiction, the more that knowledge may erode the raw impulse to write. At first, this sounds almost perverse, since craft is u...

Finding Truth, One Line at a Time

To begin, Hemingway reduces the writer’s burden to a single act of honesty. In A Moveable Feast (1964), he advises, “All you have to do is write one true sentence.

Make Room: Revision as Growth’s Quiet Engine

Hughes’s line invites a subtle shift: treat the draft not as a verdict, but as a room that expands as the story learns itself. By calling revision “the author’s secret,” the quote hints at a backstage craft—patient, iter...

Crafting Meaning: The Precision of Effective Writing

Robert Louis Stevenson’s insight highlights a perennial problem for writers: bridging the gap between intention and interpretation. While the act of writing itself may be habitual or even easy, ensuring that one’s chosen...