The Problem With Writing

Thanks to George Getschow for allowing us to publish these two essays on writing, from George and Michael Mooney, which will be published in Ten Spurs, an anthology of the "best of the best" writing submitted to the Mayborn Conference's writing contests each year. Read up.

By George Getschow

Bill Marvel, a very fine writer and associate editor of this publication, and I talk about the vagaries and vicissitudes of writing the way most people carry on about the weather. We talk about the constant fluctuations in form, style and substance, about the rise and decline in popularity of memoir, essay, biography and other genres among the reading public, about how the Digital Age has ignited tremors…