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Month: November 2017

The Good Mentor

November 18, 2017November 18, 2017 ~ Margaret McCaffrey ~ 2 Comments

It’s said that writing can’t be taught. But why not? Tobias Wolff taught George Saunders at Syracuse University, and look where that got George. All the way to the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2017. Saunders speaks admiringly of Tobias, who once warned him not to lose “the magic.” Early in his career, George’s … Continue reading The Good Mentor

Making a Scene

November 3, 2017November 3, 2017 ~ Margaret McCaffrey ~ Leave a comment

‘Keep the drama on the page,’ says Julia Cameron, author of The Artists Way. She means make your work dramatic, not your life. In drafts of my writing I see I have a series of themes and anecdotes, but not so much the stuff of drama. Take a recent story about my working on Dad’s … Continue reading Making a Scene

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