Jonathan Cosgrove

Tag: Writing

  • quality doesn’t matter.

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    Matt Bell talking to my very soul this morning.

  • Surmount all obstacles

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    I did some work on the novel this morning before work. Came up with a pretty great scene that takes place largely before the point at which I started my narrative. I knew that scene was there, all along. Skulking in the shadows. The problem–as is always the problem with coming up with new beginnings…

  • Losing the Plot

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    A few months ago I had a really great conversation with Leo on the Losing the Plot podcast. An aptly named podcast for the times in which we live. It was a really fun conversation and we talked about all sorts of things including how no one asked us to be writers and how we…

  • Someone always says it better…

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    After my post yesterday I got some of my favourite regular e-mail this year – my monthly writing exercise from Matt Bell (If you haven’t signed up you’re missing out.) This month he wrote about Choice and Complicity. It was a fascinating read and the subject matter, though difficult to fully execute in prose, is…

  • What are you adding to the conversation?

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    Is writing anything in this day and age stupid? As I’m working through my current WIP and working on shorter things I’m plagued by this question: What’s the point really? It feels like every day there’s a new piece of bad news. It feels like every day another writer (usually, but not always, a white…