“Nothing any good isn’t hard.” What is the secret of great writing? For David Foster Wallace, it was about fun . For Henry Miller, about discovery . Susan Sontag saw it as self-exploration . Many literary greats anchored it to their daily routines . And yet, the answer remains elusive and ever-changing. In the fall of 1938, Radcliffe College sophomore Frances Turnbull sent her latest short story to family friend F. Scott Fitzgerald . His response, found in F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters ( public library ) — the same volume that gave us Fitzgerald’s heartwarming fatherly advice and his brilliantly acerbic response to hate mail — echoes Anaïs Nin’s insistence upon the importance of emotional investment in writing and offers some uncompromisingly honest advice on essence of great writing: November 9, 1938 Dear Frances: I’ve read the story carefully and, Frances, I’m afraid the price for doing professional work is a good deal higher than you are prepared to pay ...
Visiting Athens and Greece through photgraphes and reviews where, what, when to see, eat, dring, have fun, sight seen all around Athens City and more.