Jak się opiekujemy. Mój ojciec.
When a father helps his son, they both laugh. When a son helps his father, they both cry. Yiddish proverb. One of the most consequential decisions of my life was to bring my parents from Poland to the United States. While they were getting older, I realized my parents’ future looked grim in Poland. Communism […]
Francis Robicsek, człowiek renesansu.
He was Hungarian. His name, however, like the name of the city he was born, Miskolc, was Slavic. He came from the part of Eastern Europe which for a long time was dominated culturally and politically by the Austrians, and the borders between the nations were in constant flux. He grew up in a country […]
Przeszłość
Przeszłość nigdy nie jest martwa, a nawet nie jest przeszłością... William Faulkner
Pisanie emocji
Nie chodzi o to, co dzieje się z ludźmi na stronie, ale o to, co dzieje się z czytelnikiem. Gordon Lish
Starzenie się
Starzenie się to podnoszenie się z ziemi, dostrzeganie mniejszej liczby szczegółów, ale lepszy przegląd sytuacji. Kiedy człowiek wznosi się w górę, nagle zdaje sobie sprawę, że jest spokojny. Wysoko w przestrzeni nie ma hałasu, jest cicho, a powietrze jest czystsze. Widzisz tylko ważne rzeczy.
Plaga
The choice seemed perfect. I read James Michener’s Hawaii while on vacations on Kauai and his Poland––knowing history of this country well. Reading Camus’ masterpiece now, when coronavirus is raging, lets me the current events with a different acuity. I don’t plan to relate the story in more detail. Enough to say, it’s about the […]
Słowo o łamigłówkach
Recently a friend of mine wrote his first blog. https://puzzlingdotblog.wordpress.com/ We started our conversations in jacuzzi in our fitness club. They were as quirky as unusual was our meeting place. The noise in hot tub limits parts of conversations. But you know from the beginning what some people are born writers. For me, conditio sine […]
27 zasad pisania fikcji Alana Heathcocka
This post was written on a Twitter request by people looking for this excellent writing advice given by an American fiction writer Alan Heathcock. It is re-posted as-is, preserving the original formatting and syntax. Posted on the request on Twitter by Ann Murphy,@Gaiamethod
Życie pisarza
Błędem byłoby traktowanie jakiejkolwiek powieści jako autobiografii. To raczej wgląd autora w sekretne miejsca życia. Robert McKee.
