>Bausch’s Ten Commandments of Writing

>Richard Bausch is a terrific teacher. At the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2004 his craft lecture consisted of his Ten Commandments of Writing, which he has set forth in this essay: Letter to a Young Writer.

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

Comments

  1. >Good stuff, Cliff! He didn’t give this talk per se this year at Sewanee, but the tone and content of what he said was much the same…what it asks of the writer, what the writer can expect, and how the results you influence are limited to what you actually do, what work you do, that day.

    I’ll post a link from my writer’s journal when I make my next entry.

    JimT

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