And they challenged writers to create more nuanced, more varied, more thoughtful female characters, active not reactive, neither wholly good nor utterly bad.
And it matters that this is not just an individual exercise, but an institutional discipline, with editors who are tasked to challenge writers if they have given short shrift to contrary facts or arguments readers might want to know.
As executive director of National Novel Writing Month, which challenges writers to write a 50,000-word novel in November (akin to Faulkner's bursts of 3,000 words a day), I adhere to the notion of writing with abandon to bang out a first draft of a novel — to explore narrative possibilities and push boundaries of all sorts without the presence of a censorious internal editor.
All such events challenge writers to produce the best of the worst, whatever that might be.
We've detailed the meaning behind the line of dialogue, along with some additional notes, and we've challenged writers with this little exercise.
I challenge writers to highlight the beauty of the Curry, Thompson, Jackson and Iguodala families, and not just their athletic gifts, for it is the character of these men that created champions.
I'll get finish this column as soon as I win the next game of Freefall on my computer, check my email, scroll through Facebook and Twitter, edit the earlier part of this column, go for a run, convince myself I am not the only completion challenged writer in the world, and find the gumption to overcome resistance.
In the last days of Communism, in 1989, Mr. Pristavkin headed the April Committee, a group of 500 writers challenging the monolithic writers' union.
In the exchange between Gates and Lethem, both opine about the rapidly dissolving distinctions between "text and commentary, original and copy, private and public, book and computer" that challenge writers and readers alike.
After a prologue that seems to protest a little much in insisting, contrary to general belief, that the Jonson biographer faces many of the same "puzzles and excitements" that challenge writers on Shakespeare, Donaldson begins his book midstride, almost literally, with Jonson marching out of London on a journey to Scotland undertaken entirely on foot.
