Please bear with me while I continue to indulge my Isherwood obsession... Having read and re-read the Berlin Stories (
Mr Norris Changes Trains and
Goodbye to Berlin) and
Christopher & His Kind here, condensed, are some words of wisdom regarding the practice of writing as gleaned from Isherwood himself:
- Be honest
- Write from experience
- Write from the heart
- Expose yourself / lay yourself bare on the page
- Feel the fear and do it anyway
- Use real characters as the basis for fictional ones
- Take a brain dump – shame yourself and give yourself something to work with
- Write in public
- Take inspiration from the everyday practice of life
- Make the mundane interesting, make the interesting mundane
- Revel in the company of other writers
More to come on a new subsite soon.
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