During an interview with Lit Hub‘s WMFA podcast, Garth Greenwell says that writers’ eccentricities should be their greatest asset. “In the education of writers, more emphasis should be put on the idea that your peculiarities and your eccentricities are the things you write into,” Greenwell says. “There’s obviously this balance between working at a craft level to acquire skills that you don’t have and trying to be the broadest writer you can be, and then also diving into things that are distinctive. To some people they will seem like advantages, and to other people, they will seem like flaws, and that’s okay.”
