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Tag Archives: Hemingway
Hemming and Hawing
If Hemingway hadn’t put that macho gloss on things, he’d have been revealed as an aesthete, something his upbringing didn’t let him admit, even to himself perhaps. He was at core sensitive, finely-tuned, and delicate, not attributes one associates with … Continue reading
Writers Write
Graham Greene wrote 1500 words a day, each morning, then played the rest of the day. Wrote them in a leather journal using a fountain pen. Hemingway squeezed out words by the tens and hundreds, using a pencil in … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaiman, Greene, Gyre, Hemingway, Simenon, Updike, Writing
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Panning Gold From Life
As a reader, I have known that good writing is really all that matters. Even when I was a kid. As a writer, I know that market category forces us into a Procrustean deal with the devil. Warping our work … Continue reading
Great Man’s Ghost
“He loved everything up to a certain point, and then nothing was any good anymore.” – Hemingway’s younger brother, Leicester. /// In the war he did horrible things. Put det cord around a prisoner’s forehead and set it off. Vaporized … Continue reading
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Tagged Ficta Mystica, Gene Stewart, ghost, Hemingway, satire, Writing
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Where Style Stands
Hemingway had his famous terse style. Concise, really. Implicit. It was artificial, which is why, as his alcoholism progressed, he slipped more and more often. In other words, he’d write stuff, conventional stories, THEN apply his “style”, a conscious approach, first removing … Continue reading
Posted in Sample Essays
Tagged Classical, Classicism, concise, Ficta Mystica, Gene Stewart, Hemingway, McCann, McCarthy, style
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