Whether you're just beginning your writing journey or deep into your third draft, this collection of insights and advice offers guidance, encouragement, and practical tips from the New York Writers Workshop faculty and community. From tackling writer’s block to refining your voice, these reflections are here to inspire your process and support your growth—one word at a time.
I followed with a few arguments supporting the notion that creative writing can be taught, and I suggested a potentially cynical motivation for those who said that it cannot. Now, ten years, four printings, and thirty thousand-plus copies later, I wonder if there is any reasonable support for the “it cannot be taught” position.
Most of us are talking less on the phone, and replacing that sound with a scrambling of our fingers on the keyboard or thumbs on our smartphones. I have nothing against these new-fangled inventions, but they have muted our voices.
Drop me into the forest with a pen and a small notepad, and I can write away. All Abraham Lincoln needed was the back of an envelope to compose one of the most famous speeches in history.
