The Beckett of the novels is not a very efficient writer — exhaustion is his method — but he can probably condense more cackling blasphemies onto a single page than anyone else.
But the mercurial editor and the placid, efficient writer immediately hit it off, and after only two years, Willa was named managing editor, responsible for the daily operations of a magazine with nearly a million subscribers.
So, in the interest of survival, I've worked up a strategy on my way to becoming a more efficient writer with excellent time management skills.
I think I'm a much more efficient writer now, oddly enough, for not just sitting down and gutting it out at the computer screen, but for taking a walk first and letting my brain do what it needs to do in order to get ready and organize all my thoughts.
You will be a stronger, more efficient writer when you tackle subjects you know well.
We are denied this in life, since we can never recall everything in a messy event happening around us, no matter how many times we replay it in our heads; in a brutally efficient way, the writer, Barry Levy, and the director, Pete Travis, have achieved this.
A former reporter for The New York Times, Ms. Sobel is an elegant stylist, a riveting and efficient storyteller, a writer who can bring the dustiest of subjects to full-blooded life -- poignant, in the case of Galileo; cautious but also loving, loyal and feisty in the case of Copernicus.
This collection takes an efficient swipe at white liberal writers who cruise the projects looking for story subjects in "I Am Friends With a Working-Class Black Woman" and Hemingway pretenders in "Portrait of an Andalusian Horse Trainer": "The colt loomed monstrously in front of a swirling wall of rain clouds.
They say he is not a politician, and that is precisely the advantage he has over the real UNO crowd: "He is moderate, pragmatic, efficient," one Sandinista official told writer.
Well, yes—I think that's one of the fundamental goals of fiction, and its most efficient modus operandi: as a writer you've got to keep trying to "de-Other" your narrator until you've established him as basically you but on a different day.
