Learning to Write
My latest column is up at Strange Horizons : "Learning to Write" . I didn't realize this would be SH's eighth anniversary issue. Eight years of weekly doses of fiction, poetry, essays, articles, etc. An impressive accomplishment, especially given that everyone on staff is a volunteer. They're all a joy to work with, and I think the results are extraordinary in many ways, so congratulations to all of the various Strange Horizon writers and staff over the years. The new column is a strange one, but then, most of them are. It's centered on Jules Renard's journals , recently reissued by Tin House Books , and appearances are also made by Jacques Roubaud's Some Thing Black and Gertrude Stein's How to Write . By the way, if you ever teach an intro composition class or something like that, I recommend sticking Stein's How to Write on a shelf, and when a student asks you for the "secret" of writing (or anything to that effect), tell them...
