Tuesday, July 24, 2012

A challenge




Last weekend at the Book Passage Mystery Writing Conference in Corte Madera Don Winslow threw out a challenge to everyone - Write what you are scared to write.  He talked about going to a deeper level, picking that hardened scab and exploring the dark side inside you. Piled onto that David Corbett quoted Simone de Beauvoir who said "To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized."




Cara - Tuesday
at 11:16 AM

5 comments:

  1. Jeffrey SigerJuly 24, 2012 at 1:12 PM

    It's about time he decided to catch up with us.

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  2. lil GlucksternJuly 24, 2012 at 2:05 PM

    Interesting statement. I think that applies in a lot of fields-to stretch your boundaries, your limits. The pictures are lovely-as usual.

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  3. Timothy HallinanJuly 24, 2012 at 2:13 PM

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  4. Timothy HallinanJuly 24, 2012 at 2:14 PM

    If you don't work on tiptoe, you'll stay at the same level.

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  5. Annamaria AlfieriJuly 24, 2012 at 11:05 PM

    Until I came to the "dark side inside you," I was thinking about comedy. I always think I could never write funny. Does it have to be the dark side that we are afraid to write?

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