Author Archives: michaelcescon

“Fire is never a gentle master.” Writing is a strange thing. What can be said about it, really, that hasn’t already been said a thousand times? “Everyone starts with a crappy first draft” or “You just have to put butt in chair and do the work” or “Every writer is his or her own worstContinue reading “On Writing”

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” – Colette If writing is fire, I wonder if editing is ice. Maybe that’s not quite right. Editing isn’t cold, per say, butContinue reading “On Editing”

“Come, my friends, ‘T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.” – “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Storytelling comes in many forms,Continue reading “Tides on the Oceansphere”