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years I'd published eight novels, two anthologies, two
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nonfiction books about television production, and a short
story collection. I'd written four more television scripts.
And I'd won three Hugo and three Nebula nominations.
Boy, I showed him.
And yes, rage is an excellent fuel.
Later on, when the rage faded out, I discovered that rage
isn't enough. A writer also needs technique. And that's why
he was an incompetent instructor, because he failed to
teach the necessary skills for carrying a narrative over the
inevitable rough spotsтАФhe failed to teach technique.
The second-best writing instructor I ever had was Irwin R.
Blacker at USC Film School. Blacker's theory of writing
could be summed up in three words: "Structure! Structure!
Structure!"
That was the beginning. Those three words opened the
door to understanding. From that moment, storytelling as
a craft ceased to be a mystery and began to be an adventure.
I wondered what other secrets I could discover.
The trick was to learn from real writers.
A few years later, I started to attend science fiction con-
ventions. The most exciting moments occurred when some
of the best writers and editors in the field appeared on
panels and spoke candidly of their own discoveries and
insights: Harlan Ellison, Frederik Pohl, Anne McCaffrey,
Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, James Blish, Robert Sil-
verberg, Terry Carr, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, and
many others whose work I admired.
As a beginner, I was envious of the mastery that the pros
in the field took for granted. I wondered how they had
gained such wisdom and despaired that I would ever
achieve that same kind of skill. At the beginning, every
sentence was an effort, every paragraph was an obstacle,
every chapter completed was a victory. Writing was hard.
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(And it never gets any easier. It just gets harder in different
ways.)
Here's the paradox:
There's a lot of technique to learn, and you can only learn
it by doing. Writing teaches itself in the act of writingтАФbut
only after you learn the technique, do you find out that
writing well is not about technique at all.
There is another domain of creativity, another way of