The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

At the time of my first novel’s death, I had written fewer than twenty new pages, best characterized as a project rather than a novel. I was twenty-​nine years old, hardly ancient, but I had been writing fiction since I was sixteen. Thirteen years is either a lot of time to throw away to pursue a new career, or a lot of time to be doing something and not yet know what you’re doing. I was haunted by the voice of an award-​winning writer in graduate school who described one of my short stori...

Make storytelling your superpower by Adam Davidson

Masterful StorytellingMake storytelling your superpowerYou hear about them and you need to know their secret: the folks who walk into a VC’s office with nothing but a deck and a tale to tell and walk out fully funded. Or those employers who recruit teams filled with the most awesome people. Or that person who sails through job interviews and gets your dream job. You know what they all have: they have a great story and they know how to tell it well. Storytelling is the essential technology of ...

BBC - Future - The ‘light triad’ that can make you a good person

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Creative Writing essay in New Yorker JUN 2019