'We crave the happy accident, the thing that comes out of the blue. You are the blue. It is never an accident.'
Lavinia Greenlaw draws on decades of experience as a writer, editor and teacher to offer insight, cues, strategies and provocations.
While she starts in poetry, the form in which language is most concentrated, her notes also address the writing of prose. We move from how to take hold of that first inkling of an idea to the kinds of questions we should be asking of our material: questions of form, intent, technique, music and tension.
Greenlaw invites, cajoles, provokes and surprises us into new ways of thinking about how writing does and doesn't work.
This book is for writers at any stage as well as for those who would like insight into what makes the best writing tick.
Lavinia Greenlaw draws on decades of experience as a writer, editor and teacher to offer insight, cues, strategies and provocations.
While she starts in poetry, the form in which language is most concentrated, her notes also address the writing of prose. We move from how to take hold of that first inkling of an idea to the kinds of questions we should be asking of our material: questions of form, intent, technique, music and tension.
Greenlaw invites, cajoles, provokes and surprises us into new ways of thinking about how writing does and doesn't work.
This book is for writers at any stage as well as for those who would like insight into what makes the best writing tick.