Resilience and consuming drive to produce are critical to writers. So is determination to stand tall before truths one confronts. A writer who wants to do work that lasts must be equal to the power of observed truth. Poet Robinson Jeffers was one of those writers. But in great writing, no truth is simple. The […]
Read More...Writers at Work: Yeats
Life is inseparable from art. That is part of the reason we at The Stoneslide Corrective so closely study the circumstances around the composition of great works of art through our Writers at Work series. William Butler Yeats had a life rich in event and literary production. He was deeply involved in politics, founded a […]
Read More...Stoneslide Media Announces the Liberation of Writerkind
“Rejection be not proud, though some have called thee mighty,” said Sylvester Stonesman, one of the designers of The Rejection Generator. “I think this project proves that any source of misery in human life can be overcome with innovative thought and judicious use of technology. I hope every writer will avail him- or herself of this revolutionary development. And it’s free!”
Read More...Writers at Work: Dickens
Everyone knows that Dickens wrote fast—he was famously paid by the word. He produced stacks of copy, but he also generated prose of such brilliance that people know the lines by heart more than a century later. We at The Stoneslide Corrective investigated his process of composition in order to understand how it was possible […]
Read More...Writers at Work: Bono
The rock singer Bono is a lyricist of great and deserved renown. The heart of his success is his artistic expression, and that wasn’t formed in the public sphere of cocktail parties, expert panels, or focus groups. It was forged in solitary labors, where the soul pounds against the hard truths of nature and the […]
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