October 17th, 2008 / 10:58 am
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John Gardner followup which is also sort of a Writing Workshops followup

(via Small Beer’s Gavin J. Grant at the Bookslut blog)

Sci-fi fantasy person Jeffrey Ford answers three questions at How to Write Stories About Writers:

About studying with John Gardner:

We didn’t bother with the Moral Fiction bullshit when he was teaching me, he was trying to show me how to edit and talking to me about irony and suspense and the things that make a good plot. I have somewhere a sheet of paper on which he wrote out for me the rules of the comma. He told me his theory of teaching writing, he said, “I can’t make you a writer, but I can show you some of the pitfalls and problems you’re going to face in writing and how to get around them. This is stuff that if you stuck with it you would probably learn, yourself, but I could save you five or ten years.

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6 Comments

  1. October 17th, 2008 / 4:24 pm Brad D. Green—

      Are there any boobs in that picture? It’s kinda hard to tell. Hopefully mean week doesn’t involve an abandonment of boob Friday. That’d be more than mean, cruel perhaps.

  2. October 17th, 2008 / 4:24 pm Brad D. Green—

      Are there any boobs in that picture? It’s kinda hard to tell. Hopefully mean week doesn’t involve an abandonment of boob Friday. That’d be more than mean, cruel perhaps.

  3. October 17th, 2008 / 12:24 pm Brad D. Green—

      Are there any boobs in that picture? It’s kinda hard to tell. Hopefully mean week doesn’t involve an abandonment of boob Friday. That’d be more than mean, cruel perhaps.

  4. October 17th, 2008 / 4:57 pm Darby Larson—

      I saw this painting when we went to italy earlier this year. Its hung in the vatican. I think Raphael’s original was with all the characters unclothed, but it was undecent for the time so clothes were drawn on everyone after the fact. I think this is true, some one can double check that. Anyway, boobs.

  5. October 17th, 2008 / 4:57 pm Darby Larson—

      I saw this painting when we went to italy earlier this year. Its hung in the vatican. I think Raphael’s original was with all the characters unclothed, but it was undecent for the time so clothes were drawn on everyone after the fact. I think this is true, some one can double check that. Anyway, boobs.

  6. October 17th, 2008 / 12:57 pm Darby Larson—

      I saw this painting when we went to italy earlier this year. Its hung in the vatican. I think Raphael’s original was with all the characters unclothed, but it was undecent for the time so clothes were drawn on everyone after the fact. I think this is true, some one can double check that. Anyway, boobs.