Verlyn Klinkenborg
Teoksen Several Short Sentences About Writing tekijä
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Verlyn Klinkenborg comes form a family of Iowa farmers. He is a member of the editorial board of The New York Times and has written for The New Yorker, Mother Jones, and Harper's. He lives on a small farm in upstate New York.
Image credit: © 2005 Lindy Smith
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A stone house in Utah 1 kappale
Timothy; Or Notes of an Abject Reptile 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1952
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Meeker, Colorado, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Meeker, Colorado, USA
Osage, Iowa, USA
California, USA - Koulutus
- Pomona College
Princeton University - Ammatit
- Newspaper editor
non-fiction writer - Organisaatiot
- The New York Times
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Guggenheim Fellowship (2007)
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
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The only thing I really disagree with is the turning over of sentences in your head until you get them perfect before writing them down. He gives his reasons. I just disagree. The hardest thing about writing is just... writing. So throwing up on the paper is fine as long as you get it down. I would rather have a so-so short story completed that I never have time to revise to perfection, than nothing but the first two perfect paragraphs of said story. I rant.
Overall, would recommend as there are plenty of ideas to pick and choose from. Not that it matters to anyone, but I listened to the Audible Audiobook, though that edition was not listed.… (lisätietoja)