Rick Killian
Lessons from a ghost . . .
Review: The Reader’s Mind by Yellowlees Douglas
As a writer, I’ve always adhered to Joan Didion’s practice when it came to punctuation, sentence structure, and the like: “Grammar is a piano I play by ear.” However, as a former English teacher, I believe grammar needs to be a logical practice that you can explain it...
Read moreBecause I am still a living
author, still at work,
I think of what I am
writing, very little of what
I have written.
Read moreWrite simply.
But do not start to think
so damned simply.
Know how complicated it is
and then state it simply.—Ernest Hemingway
Read moreAlmost all really new ideas have
a certain aspect of foolishness
when they are first produced.—Alfred North Whitehead
Read moreThose are the days you love.
The days when somebody has to
wake you up and tell you where
you are. But there are a lot of
days when you’re just slogging
along. And you’re very conscious
of your stuff and the typewriter is
a machine and the paper is blank.
You’ve got to be willing to
put in those days in order to get
to the days when it’s flowing
like magic.—Kathleen Paterson
Review: God on Mute by Pete Grieg
It is a terror to wake up in the night to see the face you love more than any other leering demonically. The image stains your memory like the Shroud of Turin, and it doesn’t fade. By now, Samie’s eyes—those beautiful, summer-blue eyes—had turned to moons of white and...
Read moreLet the writer take up surgery
or bricklaying if he is interested
in technique. There is no
mechanical way to get the
writing done, no shortcut. The
young writer would be a fool
to follow a theory. Teach
yourself by your own mistakes;
people learn only by error.―William Faulkner
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