Comments on: You can’t teach Writers how to be Great… http://nigelbeale.com/2009/01/you-cant-teach-writers-how-to-be-great/ Musings on the Book, Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the Arts, and Audio Interviews from The Biblio File radio program pertaining to same by a writer, broadcaster, bibliophile. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:38:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: brian palmu http://nigelbeale.com/2009/01/you-cant-teach-writers-how-to-be-great/comment-page-1/#comment-50561 brian palmu Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:09:01 +0000 http://nigelbeale.com/?p=1561#comment-50561 All excellent points from Rushdie, especially referencing the paucity of vision and imagination in the thousandfold manifestations of "creative" writing graduates. Who cares about the technical exactness of some earnest, well-meaning poet transcribing the robin's pecking for life in the hardscrabble of winter when the same lads and lassies are doing a minor variation of same in the same journals, the same books, with the same voice. Humourless, competent, and also redundant. Pertinent to this piece, it must be also be said -- how many creative writing classes did Whitman or Shakespeare take? How many leagues of poets did Dickinson or Blake belong to? All excellent points from Rushdie, especially referencing the paucity of vision and imagination in the thousandfold manifestations of “creative” writing graduates. Who cares about the technical exactness of some earnest, well-meaning poet transcribing the robin’s pecking for life in the hardscrabble of winter when the same lads and lassies are doing a minor variation of same in the same journals, the same books, with the same voice.

Humourless, competent, and also redundant.

Pertinent to this piece, it must be also be said — how many creative writing classes did Whitman or Shakespeare take? How many leagues of poets did Dickinson or Blake belong to?

]]> By: Lee http://nigelbeale.com/2009/01/you-cant-teach-writers-how-to-be-great/comment-page-1/#comment-50545 Lee Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:17:50 +0000 http://nigelbeale.com/?p=1561#comment-50545 Absolutely ... or even a great blog (but yours comes close). Absolutely … or even a great blog (but yours comes close).

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