Category: On Writing

• Minimisation

  Some thoughts on writing a novel of substantial length.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  June 13, 2017

  At the Edge of the Solid World, On Writing

  Dana Phillips, Mark de Silva

• The Joys of Syntax

  Victoria Redel celebrates “the music inside a sentence.”

  Daniel Davis Wood

  April 14, 2017

  On Writing

  Jason Lucarelli, Victoria Redel

• On Ethical Immediacy

  Gabriel Josipovici discusses the wordless sensation that prompts the act of writing.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  March 9, 2017

  At the Edge of the Solid World, On Writing

  Gabriel Josipovici, Lars Iyer

• Dissatisfaction is the Source

  Julienne van Loon discusses the need to write, and its relationship to a dissatisfaction with what is already written.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  March 8, 2017

  At the Edge of the Solid World, On Writing

  Julienne van Loon

• Rigorous and Iterative

  Thinking through my novel-in-progress, I relate my writing process to the one recently described by George Saunders in The Guardian.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  March 7, 2017

  At the Edge of the Solid World, On Writing

  George Saunders

• The Heft of a Novel

  An agreement with Marilynne Robinson on the feeling that prompts the writing of a novel.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  February 15, 2017

  At the Edge of the Solid World, On Writing

  Marilynne Robinson

• On Knowledge

  Rachel Cusk on creating a narratorial perspective that has “no prior knowledge.”

  Daniel Davis Wood

  February 6, 2017

  On Writing

  Rachel Cusk, Reading for Perspective

• Listening to the Murmur

  An attempt to describe the sensation that precipitates the writing of a novel.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  January 5, 2017

  At the Edge of the Solid World, On Writing

• Distractions

  Notes on having embarked on the journey of writing a new novel.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  December 1, 2016

  At the Edge of the Solid World, On Writing

  Winter Fugue

• On Style

  Remarks by Susan Sontag and David Winters on “style as stance” in contemporary writing.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  February 4, 2012

  On Writing

  Anthony Brown, David Winters, Lydia Davis, Peter Gay, Susan Sontag, Thomas Bernhard