In Publishers Weekly this morning I read that Amy Hempel, a creative writing tutor, always asks her students…
‘Why are you telling me this?’ Someone out there will be asking, and you better have a very compelling answer. Is this essential? Is this something only you can say—or only you can say it this way? Is this going to make anyone’s life better, or make anyone’s day better? And I don’t mean the writer’s day.”
Something like this makes me sit up and pay attention.
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