Wednesday
In his essay “The Talent of the Room,” Michael Ventura argues that the true talent of a writer is his/her ability to write (alone) in a room, and thus “talent” becomes the writer’s ability to answer the these “fundamental” questions:
How long can you stay in that room? How many hours a day? How do you behave in that room? How often can you go back to it? How much fear (and, for that matter, how much elation) can you endure by yourself? How many years–how many years–can you remain alone in a room?
From Ethel Rohan
September 9, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Alone. Alone. Alone. Pounding away, hour after hour after hour. Day after day. On and on and on. I must be one talented writer 🙂
From Randall Brown
September 21, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Ha! And popular, too.