On Terrible Writing Advice From Famous People

For aspiring as well as established writers, this great piece from Danielle Dutton debunks so much writing 'advice' given by notable authors. So often what serves to advise is in fact limited or confining writers from what good work they may have otherwise authored through their own free, unfettered process of self-discovery.

As Dutton offers, 'Writing is a process so mysterious and weird and fragile and confusing and specific as to be almost impossible for any writer to fully articulate even to herself. For me, the only writing advice that stirs anything meaningful in my guts or brains—advice that opens me up rather than shutting me down—is advice that acknowledges the limits of what we can know about ourselves or our work, that acknowledges (even revels in) the unknowable, the void.'

A worthy read.