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Posts tagged ‘Kurt Vonnegut’

Jun 4

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Getting over Writer’s Block?

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? – Kurt Vonnegut

Most writers will have trouble writing at some point in their careers, the cause of which they will attribute to writer’s block. Neurologist Alice Flaherty, author of The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain (2004) argued that ‘literary creativity is a function of specific areas of the brain, and that writer’s block may be the result of brain activity being disrupted in those areas.’ Victoria Nelson, author of On Writer’s Block(1993) writes that ‘although it can be triggered by any number of…

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Apr 30

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Odd Writing Habits that Worked

The literary world is dotted with figures, each with its unique, and in a way, eccentric writing habits. Some were fastidious, some methodical, a few wrote with a drink by their side, some wrote standing up, some walked while they wrote, while others liked to write lying down.

Writing standing up was an oddly common method. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up as did Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, the author of Lolita. Nabokov used index cards for his writing. He wrote the scenes non-sequentially so that he could re-arrange the cards as he wished. His longest novel Ada(1969) took up more than 2,000 cards…

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