Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. Writers, like nature, abhor a vacuum. Much as our work necessitates the embrace, or at least acceptance, of uncertainty – will I get the story; can I write the story? – most writers gravitate to some semblance of order. We might admire and early on even dabble in the free-form-break-the-rules-stream-of-consciousness-how-in-heaven’s-name-did-he/she-write-such-prose of, say, James Joyce or David Foster Wallace. But admiration does not always lead to emulation.
Writerland, Chapter 28: Forget Form; Think “Zetz”
Writerland, Chapter 28: Forget Form; Think…
Writerland, Chapter 28: Forget Form; Think “Zetz”
Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. Writers, like nature, abhor a vacuum. Much as our work necessitates the embrace, or at least acceptance, of uncertainty – will I get the story; can I write the story? – most writers gravitate to some semblance of order. We might admire and early on even dabble in the free-form-break-the-rules-stream-of-consciousness-how-in-heaven’s-name-did-he/she-write-such-prose of, say, James Joyce or David Foster Wallace. But admiration does not always lead to emulation.