Facing writer's block, Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway found solace in a simple rule: write one undeniably true sentence.
The recent PBS series on the life of Ernest Hemingway displayed the writing-style rules of the Kansas City Star newspaper, from when Hemingway worked there in 1917 and 1918. He hadn't yet turned 20; ...
THE other day I heard a solemnly uninteresting young writer say that when he wrote fiction, he never thought of real people and situations; novelists who “used” real people lacked the imagination of ...