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Write what you know or like
Austin Kleon posted some quotes from Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, which included the oft-said “write what you know” advice: Write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty – describe all these with heartfelt, [...]
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The Essay
In a recent post on his blog (1), Craig Fischer, shared this quote: An essay is a search to find out what one thinks about something. –Phillip Lopate, “In Search of the Centaur: the Essay-Film.” In a way that sums up my feeling about the criticism I write. To write about something I’ve read is [...]