Writing Moves the Sky

“To write is to jump outside the line of the assassins.” – Franz Kafka

First of all I would like to thank the New School, and Edith Kurzweil who invited me to this eighth William Phillips lecture and gave me the opportunity to come to the prestigious New School.

My father Harold Kaplan was a great friend of William Phillips, who published his first short ...

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Writing Moves the Sky

How to Beat Writer’s Block

Try these games to unblock the flow, or direct it somewhere new.

These games are offered as solutions for two kinds of problems. One is writer’s block. Let’s be done with the waiting for ‘inspiration’. Let’s just get to work. All one has to overcome is one’s resistance to labor. The other problem is the opposite: our facility with writing, but always ...
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How to Beat Writer’s Block