If you’re a writer, you have to work on your craft. You have to learn the mechanics. You have to study language and dialogue. You have to read other people’s work – both the classics and the contemporaries. You have to develop what Dean Young calls a “critical sensibility” that guides how you read and write.
Archives for March 2014
Write Right Tilts at Windmills
Write Right borrowed Don Quixote’s horse, Rocinante, but it’s unlikely the horse will help her win any tilts with the windmills.
For the Love of Reading
Reading has always played a large role in my life, but the first book I recall infiltrating daily life was Where the Red Fern Grows. My mom spent a summer reading the book to my brothers and me. We wept when we learned the fate of Big Dan and Little Anne.