Charlie wrote this...
From several of my classes, my meetings with playwrights through UCCS, the mentorship of folks like Kevin Landis and Murray Ross, I've gotten this idea that there is a kind of magic in writing in a genre that you dislike. Find the last piece of fiction you'd ever want to touch, your least favorite author, a subject matter that bores you to literal tears... and that is where you need to write from, both as an exercise in escaping your comfort zone and in writing differently th an you thought you... Sign in to see full entry.