"At least in conventional fiction, the moment we stop caring where "What the young writer needs to develop, to achieve his goal of becomingĪ great artist, is not a set of aesthetic laws, but artistic mastery."
Leads us to feel uneasy about our faults and limitations." Know what we believe, reinforces those qualities that are noblest in us, That it entertains us or distracts us from our troubles, not just that itīroadens our knowledge of people and places, but also that it helps us to "Thus the value of great fiction, we begin to suspect, is not just whatever the genre may be, fiction does its work by creating a True writer is one for whom technique has become, as for the pianist, second "Though the literary dabbler may write a fine story now and then, the If you are serious about writing fiction, I commend both of these to you. Here are several quotes from the two books cited above. Like too many other artists, he died too young. Gardner died in a motorcycle accident in September 1982, not yet 50. He wrote more than a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction including Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf tale from the point of view of the monster. John Gardner was both a writer and a teacher. (This formula works for advertising, marketing, entrepreneurialism and other pursuits.) That is, read all the books you can find in the library about the writing craft, then purchase the best ones for your own ongoing usage.
I'd pretty much suggest that if you are a beginning writer, you do the same. After finding one of these in our local library I purchased both for my personal library. The Art of Fiction and On Becoming a Novelist are considered classics. John Gardner was another author whose books were also recommended. Years later I read it again, and though now a century old it still offers rewards for wannabe writers. In the advanced article writing class, the instructor recommended reading Jack London's Martin Eden, advice which I dutifully followed up on. It was a life changing week for me and I have been a publishing writer ever since. In my first first writer's conference in 1983 I took both the fiction and non-fiction (article writing) tracks, in part because I wanted to be a publishing freelancer and I also wanted to learn the craft of fiction.
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