Creative Writing: 40 Years, 400 Years, 4000 Years ...

摘要

As some of you will know, at the first Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference some 40 years ago, the great Communion Islands novelist Walter Home revealed that he could only write creatively if clothed simply in his underwear, behind a mahogany lectern, standing on his veranda, overlooking Maulson Beach, the sand and stones rushing below him. Home said: 'I can never dress beyond undergarments until I have written all I have to say on that day'. After which he would shave, shower, and don a white suit.