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• I wish I knew exactly who I was. I was talking to a friend earlier about the advice people give each other, advice like "just be yourself," and how this is particularly awful because it presumes we know who we are. As if people are static and unchanging.

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  Being Yourself, Talking, People

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• Definitivamente se trata del ritmo de las palabras y de cómo suenan juntas, de escribir una frase y luego otra y otra y de cortar algo inmediatamente si no se siente verdadero. Vengo de una familia de músicos y, aunque no tengo habilidades musicales propias, creo que he heredado un buen oído.

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  Escribir, cortar, pensar

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• Creo que entrenar tu instinto pasa por escribir y leer. No hay ningún gran secreto. Yo recomendaría a todo el mundo que editara alguna vez una revista literaria. Lleva tiempo, pero se puede aprender mucho de otros escritores que también están aprendiendo. Los patrones (¿doce relatos sobre ballenas en este lote?) también son interesantes.

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  Leer, escribir, pensar

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• To be quite honest, along with thinking and such when it comes to writing, I'm not into words like "theory." I'm a PhD dropout. No matter how many twenty-five-page papers I wrote, I never felt like I was saying much. I didn't feel like the writer of the book, whose work I was analyzing, would have been impressed. It didn't matter how much time or effort I put in.

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  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• Hay escenas que me costaron más que otras: el accidente de coche y la tormenta son dos de las que me vienen a la mente. Es difícil escribir sobre una tormenta. Hay muchas maneras de describirla y nuestro vocabulario es muy limitado. Y la escena del accidente de coche requería una calidad tensa y maníaca que debía transmitirse en el lenguaje, así como en el diálogo y las acciones de los personajes. Estuve editando estas escenas mucho después de pensar que las había terminado.

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  Carácter, Escritura, Dos

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• There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and it doesn't matter how hard I try.

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  Escribir, Intentar, Camino

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• A story works when there's momentum, life behind the words. Some stories have this and others don't, and it's difficult to say why this is. If all stories "worked," though, writing wouldn't be much of a challenge; it wouldn't be art.

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  Art, Writing, Challenges

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• Good writing, in my opinion, is writing that looks really easy, so easy that a person who has never written more than a grocery list might convince themself that they could also write a book. That being said, it's always a lot of work, as you know. And then there's this: you have no idea how many failed stories and novels I've attempted. I have files full of stories that didn't work for whatever reason.

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  Libro, Escritura, Ideas

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• He aprendido mucho sobre el lenguaje leyendo granizados. Se nota enseguida si un escritor controla la narración. Este escritor evitará utilizar demasiadas palabras como "posiblemente", "probablemente", "tal vez", "quizás", etc. Evitará los clichés y las metáforas, y no empleará cuatro frases para decir lo que podría decir en una (o escribirá una gran frase y la seguirá con un montón de cosas que la debilitan).

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  Lectura, escritura, cuatro

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• Creo que llega un momento en que uno se da cabezazos contra la pared con la revisión, cuando hace algo diferente pero no mejor. Para mí, la revisión suele tener más que ver con hacer el lenguaje más bonito, encontrar imágenes más claras, utilizar verbos más activos.

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  Wall, Thinking, Different

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• Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to be a writer in the world; professors who are brutally honest and encouraging at the same time (this is a tough one).

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  Media, Años, Clase

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• I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm still pretty confused about what "plot" means. I've been reading some of my Goodreads reviews and one reader noted that the The Last Days of California "reads like a short story stretched to the breaking point, padded and brought into novel range..." I don't know what people want, really.

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  Confused, Reading, Mean

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• I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken.

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  I've Learned, Professors, Has Beens

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• No necesitas un padre muerto para explicar la tristeza de un personaje. Y impresionarse a sí mismo con el ingenio / astucia a menudo se siente como lo que es - la intrusión de autor.

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  Father, Character, Sadness

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• I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week class for older adults), and I don't really know what my teaching style is yet.

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  Summer, Children, Teaching

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• I want to be able to discuss craft but I also want to teach writers to trust their instincts and learn to listen to themselves above all others.

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  Crafts, Want, Able

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• There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

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  Writing, Two, Quality

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• I try to think as little as possible, at least while working. I look at some of my early stories and can see the machination behind them, like a gear slowly moving. For example, sticking a dead father into the story to explain a character's sadness and bad decisions, or trying to impress myself with my own cleverness.

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  Father, Moving, Character

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• También es obsesión. Paso mucho tiempo trabajando en una sola frase, debatiendo sobre un guión o dos puntos, etc. Quiero que las cosas sean perfectas. Quiero que todo sea perfecto. Sé que nunca nada será tan perfecto como yo quiero, y esto es muy triste, pero a veces puedo acercarme.

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  Perfect, Want, Etc

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• I don't know what people want, really. Does somebody have to die? What is meant by resolution? These are questions that I don't quite know what to do with. That being said, I did want the characters to be changed by the end of the book. But will what they've gone through alter their lives from this point forward, i.e. will they make different (better) choices? Probably not.

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  Libro, Personaje, Gente

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• I suppose this is, essentially, my perspective on life. Just because we've made mistakes and learned things from them intellectually doesn't mean we won't continue to make the same mistakes over and over again.

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  Mistake, Mean, Perspective

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• Hacer que todas esas palabras funcionen juntas es difícil. Tuve que hacer mucha limpieza, reescribir muchas escenas para hacerlas más vívidas. Lo utilicé todo: todas las rarezas que he visto a un lado de la carretera, todos los recuerdos interesantes a los que pude dar relevancia.

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  Memories, Oddities, Order

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• I also liked it when professors assigned us stories that they love. In general, I liked workshops more when they were more than just a workshop, when the professor took the time to actually guide us as young writers and teach us things it took them a long time to figure out on their own. I could probably write ten pages on this question.

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  Escribir, Historias, Largas

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• I can't remember who said it - I think it was Allan Gurganus when he was visiting the Michener Center - but he told us to "spend [our] gold," meaning, put everything you have into a story. Other "gold" will be waiting for you for your next project.

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  Thinking, Waiting, Gold

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• It's difficult for me to imagine any scene differently because I've read the book so many times. The book, as a whole, seems like a document that wouldn't withstand any changes at this point. Or perhaps I simply can't imagine having to revise it again.

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  Book, Imagine, Scene

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