Don’t Let Statler and Waldorf Frame Your Writing

By Amélie Baker

I imagine the two old men in the balcony – Statler and Waldorf – from the Muppets would have no patience for a writing workshop. They would quip something like, “You know why books are better than the radio? Because when you put a book down you can’t hear it anymore.” Or “This person wants to be a writer? What, they want to be right? They don’t know how wrong they are.” But I have encountered a version of these cantankerous old men in many conversations about writing.

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