Creative Insight

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British writer Rupert Thomson is called prolific. Thomson says the reason he is prolific is because he writes all the time, going to bed late and rising early. He also comments that he always finds that the work he produces an hour or two after waking is more valuable than what he writes at any other time. I like this comment because insight often comes to me in that early morning dawn of the mind between sleep and waking. I think the book “Imagine” explains well the origin of these valuable nuggets our creative mind hands to us.

“To write Fiction at All Is a Moral Act” - www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jason-holmes/rupert-thomson-interview-_b_5837914.html

19-09-2014

To Write Fiction Is a Moral Act

#fictionimportant  #novel  #civilization  #morality

Fiction is important. It allows one to understand how someone else feels and thinks. And because civilization begins when we imagine what it is like to be the “other,” to write fiction is a moral act.

“To write Fiction at All Is a Moral Act” - www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jason-holmes/rupert-thomson-interview-_b_5837914.html

19-09-2014

Publishing Today

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Rupert Thomson, a prolific British writer, lived through a golden age, he says, when he was paid according to the perceived value of his books rather than according to the number of books he was selling. When economic jitters hit London in early 2009, publishers knew things had to change but they weren’t sure how. Thomson thinks since that time there seems to be concern about investing where there is risk and innovation--but for him that comprises all the writing going on that is really interesting. Another change, ironic he states, is that publishers are now are signing many first-time writers. One can’t have an unacceptable (read risky) track record if one doesn't have any track record at all.

There Is No Substitute for Good Writing

John Lahr: “I’m often drawn by tone and by the slant of the language. The way the sentences pop. A few well-angled sentences announce to me if this is a voice whose command I can trust or whose quirkiness intrigues. Style, after all, is metabolism. Even if it’s nonfiction, the writing has to have a pulse, something I can feel beneath the facts.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/books/review/john-lahr-by-the-book.html?emc=edit_bk_20140919&nl=books&nlid=53957551