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Adam Rifkin on Writing

“You can’t just say, ‘Well, I’m not really inspired by an idea yet, so I’m just gonna hang out and see what hits me. Maybe I’ll just write a scene and see where it takes me.'” “I don’t know any writers, who are a...

Michael Chabon on the Updated Huck Finn

Good piece, but the hole in Chabon’s argument is the fact that he was able to “adjust” the text on his own to fit the needs of his audience. It wasn’t some arbitrary “arbiter of cultural goodness” who made the change for him. The...