My son is six and draws and writes every day. He’s getting better each hour, it seems, and it’s a lesson to me that a writer must write often, not necessarily every day, but often. The great Francois Camoin told me that the mind needs time to accumulate experience. So I’m thinking to write every day might be equal to dry-heaving, at intervals. Camoin (pronounced cam WAH) is the best writer you’ll never read.
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Camoin’s book apparently can’t be bought for under 650 dollars.
A story of his called “Baby, Baby, Baby”…
http://books.google.com/books?id=3hFbHxO9cRsC&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=francois+camoin&source=web&ots=5yD8Co2Sx0&sig=dOKPpOhlT-Jb3dxQLPGNHf3uDPE
A story of his called “Looking for Strange”
http://weberstudies.weber.edu/archive/archive%20B%20Vol.%2011-16.1/Vol.%2013.1/13.1Camoin.htm
I just had a serendipitous moment. I stumbled on to your blog after googling Junot Diaz and after browsing it, came across the name Francois Camoin. I am an English undergraduate student at the University of Utah — where Camoin teaches. I have yet to take a course from him but I hear he is fabulous. Small world.
if i’m not mistaken, it was graham greene’s personal commitment to write a minimum of 500 words each day–which really isn’t a strain on either mind or hand.
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