Some interesting thoughts here in Writing on your own Terms from Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on gatekeepers, the Canon, an “imagined centre ground” and how writing is what keeps us alive.
“If writing is what allows us to dream, to engage with the world, to say everything that it feels like we cannot say … then we need to write on our own terms, don’t we?”
She concludes that writers need writers. I guess we all know this and we all read yet so often we are content to hide away in the comfort of our writing space. So join a workshop, start a course, go on a writing retreat.
Brief bio
MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE is the author, most recently, of The Freezer Door, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, one of Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books of 2020, and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for “a book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit, and impact, which has broken new ground by reshaping the boundaries of its form and signaling strong potential for lasting influence.” Sycamore is the author of two nonfiction titles and three novels, and the editor of six nonfiction anthologies.
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