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  New England Writers' Centre

Everyone can be a writer

10/15/2018

 
by Jim Belshaw
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Back in Armidale on a visit, I went down to the Newie (Armidale’s New England Hotel) for a Friday night drink with Uncle Ron and some of his country mates. The stories flowed, some of them very entertaining indeed.

“Why don’t you write them down," I said.

Everybody suddenly got very self-conscious.

“We’re not writers”, they said.

This is a not unusual reaction. The problem, I think, is that we have mystified writers and writing, turning it from a simple process into a capitalised art form. This is compounded by school experiences that have taught us not that we should write but that we must write in a particular way, that focus on the mistakes we make in writing.


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