I feel that other people's suggestions are very dangerous. Yet, I can't say that they are always destructive or not useful. Perhaps, rather than having other people tell you how you should improve your work, they should just tell you how they understand your work, what they got out of it, so that you can figure out yourself if what you did was right or wrong.
In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative? - Yuriy Tarnawsky
In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?
- Yuriy Tarnawsky
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more… - Yuriy Tarnawsky
I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more…
I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination. - Yuriy Tarnawsky
I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.
I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry. - Yuriy Tarnawsky
I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.
Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want. - Yuriy Tarnawsky
Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.
How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself. - Yuriy Tarnawsky
How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself.
Imagination is so much more fertile than life. - Yuriy Tarnawsky
Imagination is so much more fertile than life.
I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I th… - Yuriy Tarnawsky
I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I th…
That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surround… - Yuriy Tarnawsky
That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surround…
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