The Best Intellectual Training For a Writer According to Ernest Hemingway

INTERVIEWER What would you consider the best intellectual training for the would-be writer? HEMINGWAY Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for … Continue reading The Best Intellectual Training For a Writer According to Ernest Hemingway

50-Word Stories #134

Millie sketched an assassin and equipped him with a dagger and a hat. After coloring him, she forsook her studio and visited her kitchen, where she ate a Mars bar. Later, she returned to her studio only to find her canvas blank. She was startled. Behind her, the curtain rustled. Related articles 50-Word Stories #132 … Continue reading 50-Word Stories #134

10 Writing Tips From Ernest Hemingway, God Bless Him

Want some advice from one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, a man who almost got blown to bits during WWI, hunted lions for sport, survived two consecutive plane crashes, had four wives, and blew out his brains? 1 “Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you … Continue reading 10 Writing Tips From Ernest Hemingway, God Bless Him