{"id":1659,"date":"2020-04-23T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2020-04-23T16:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:48:35","slug":"scott-newstok-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/scott-newstok-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Verbal Agility, Commonplacing, And How To Think Like Shakespeare: An Interview With Award-Winning Professor And Author Scott Newstok"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who<\/strong>:\u00a0Scott Newstok<\/p>\n

Claim To Fame<\/strong>:\u00a0Scott Newstok is professor of English and founding director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment at Rhodes College. A parent and an award-winning teacher, he is the author of the just-released\u00a0How to Think Like Shakespeare<\/a>, <\/em>as well as\u00a0Quoting Death in Early Modern England<\/em><\/a>, and the editor of several other books.<\/p>\n

Where To Find Scott<\/strong>:\u00a0His\u00a0Website<\/a>,\u00a0Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Praise For Scott<\/strong>: “Insightful and joyful, this book is a masterpiece<\/a>. It invokes and provokes rather than explains. It reminds rather than lectures. It is different from any book I have ever read. And it works. Drawing on the past in the best sense of the term, it reminds us that we are part of a long tradition. Few books make the case for liberal education as creatively as this one does.”<\/em> \u2014 Johann N. Neem<\/a>, author of\u00a0What’s the Point of College<\/em>? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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When<\/a>\u00a0do you like to write? Are you\u00a0regimented<\/a>\u00a0about your writing routine?<\/h3>\n

As a procrastinating student, I used to think I wrote best in the evenings. Maybe, maybe not . . . but now that I\u2019m a mid-life fogey, my head seems clearest early in the morning, before my family wakes. That\u2019s not a terribly regimented routine, but it works well enough.<\/p>\n

Where<\/a>\u00a0do you like to write? What does your ideal work environment look like?<\/h3>\n

Silent, in seclusion, and surrounded by my books. All three are rare! But occasionally they converge: in my college office; in a basement closet<\/a>; ideally, at lakeside cabin.<\/p>\n

[*]<\/strong> Silent: like the cranky Arthur Schoepenhauer<\/a>, I feel something akin to pain at the sudden sharp crack, which paralyzes the brain, rends the thread of reflection, and murders thought<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[*]<\/strong> In seclusion: as Virginia Woolf<\/a> knew, all writers need (and women have chronically lacked) a room of [their] own, let alone a quiet room or a sound-proof room<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[*]\u00a0<\/strong>Surrounded by my books: like Montaigne<\/a>, without order, without method, and by peece-meales I turne over and ransacke, now one booke and now another.<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you have any\u00a0pre-writing rituals<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0habits<\/a>\u00a0before you sit down to write?<\/h3>\n

Does compulsively responding to email count? If not, then nope. Well, I take that back \u2014 because Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body<\/em><\/a>, I like to stretch myself by reviewing a writer whom I admire.<\/p>\n

What do you do when the writing isn\u2019t coming easy? Do you struggle at all with that dreaded enemy of writing:\u00a0writer\u2019s block<\/a>?<\/h3>\n

I tend to do more research. This can become a crutch; I know I read far too much in proportion to how little I write. But I can\u2019t help it \u2014 I really enjoy it, and every time I chance upon a new insight, it enriches what I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n

That, or I go for a walk. As Rebecca Solnit<\/a> discerned: Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and doing nothing is hard to do. It\u2019s best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Your new book How To Think like Shakespeare<\/a><\/em> is full of the habits and practices vital in Shakespeare\u2019s intellectual formation. What are some of the greatest lessons that you retained from his approach to writing?<\/h3>\n

I\u2019ve spoken elsewhere about commonplacing<\/a>. To that I\u2019d add the practice of copia<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0\u201cCopia\u201d gives us \u201ccopy\u201d\u2014what (thanks to Xerox) we take for an exact reproduction. Yet \u201ccopia\u201d in Shakespeare\u2019s era was more akin to the copiousness<\/em> that we associate with a \u201chorn of plenty,\u201d or cornucopia<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In a fireworks display of verbal agility, Erasmus rings the changes on the phrase tuae litterae\u00a0me\u00a0magnopere delectarunt<\/em>, Your letter has pleased me greatly<\/em>, which he modulates through different verbs, adjectives, word order . . . into over 140 variations<\/a>!<\/p>\n

My students laugh when they see his over-the-top list of permutations. But copia<\/em>\u2019s exercise in variation makes you appreciate (and expand) the range of possibility, in order to say it right<\/em>. Per Orwell<\/a>, if you just let the ready-made\u00a0phrases come crowding in<\/em> to your mind,<\/p>\n

They will construct your sentences for you\u2014even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent\u2014and at need they will perform the important service of\u00a0partially concealing your meaning even from yourself<\/em>. It is at this point that\u00a0the special connection between politics and the debasement of language becomes clear.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is your\u00a0method for researching and organizing material<\/a>\u00a0you might want to use for your future writing?<\/h3>\n

\u201cMethod\u201d might be a bit strong! Mainly I just try to gather as much as I can, let it simmer in my mind (and in my commonplace notebook), and then see what patterns emerge. Where are clusters of thoughts? What\u2019s the most compelling way to present this? That\u2019s about it, honestly.<\/p>\n

You are also an English professor. How does teaching the craft help you in your own writing career? What are some\u00a0common mistakes<\/a>\u00a0you see aspiring writers make?<\/h3>\n

Since I teach at a small college, with no graduate students, all of my classes are writing-intensive seminars, with regular (often daily) assignments and feedback. I like how this keeps me sharp: I must practice what I preach.<\/p>\n

Aspiring undergraduates often emulate what they perceive to be \u201cacademic\u201d writing\u2014some of the very habits I\u2019m trying to shake! Here\u2019s just one instance of mealy-mouthed academese that I keep trying to avoid: the phrase it is no accident that<\/em>. Wait, what? Do you mean that it\u2019s . . . what? . . . fated? . . . over-determined? I don\u2019t know. A phrase like this strikes me as duplicitous, even cowardly.\u00a0Say it; don\u2019t insinuate it. You can\u2019t get credit for not stating something\u2019s deliberate, yet hinting that it is!<\/p>\n

What books or writers have most influenced the way you think and the way you write? Do you have any favorite books about the craft of writing or the creative process in general?<\/h3>\n

That\u2019s tough. Like most writers, I presume, I\u2019ve gone through phases where I just had to read everything I could find by a favorite author, whether that happened to be Willa Cather, Pauline Kael, Stanley Cavell, Elizabeth Bishop, J. M. Coetzee, Kenneth Burke, or Robert Walser. With Emily Dickinson, I thank these Kinsmen of the Shelf<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In terms of teaching, I find Alastair Fowler\u2019s How to Write<\/em><\/a> full of pithy suggestions, most of which work.<\/p>\n

What is your advice to aspiring writers?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Little more than what Werner Herzog<\/a> advises aspiring filmmakers: Read, read, read, read, read. Those who read own the world; those who immerse themselves in the Internet or watch too much television lose it. <\/em><\/p>\n

For more detailed guidance, I endorse what Lydia Davis<\/a> enjoins: Go to primary sources and go to the great works to learn technique. . . .\u00a0 Read the best writers: maybe it would help to set a goal of one classic per year at least. Classics have stood the test of time, as we say. Keep trying them, if you don\u2019t like them at first \u2014 come back to them. \u00a0. . . How should you read? What should the diet of your reading be? Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion\u2014you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time.<\/em><\/p>\n

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