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Nov. 18th, 2019 09:10 pm1. For maia Why You Should Re-Read Paradise Lost
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I read it in high school. I vividly remember reading it in High School along with Beowulf and Chaucer.
2. For all the frustrated writers out there, you know who you are... Lydia Davis - Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits -- and no, I've no clue who this lady is.
Did like this one though...
Be mostly self-taught.
There is a great deal to be learned from programs, courses, and teachers. But I suggest working equally hard, throughout your life, at learning new things on your own, from whatever sources seem most useful to you. I have found that pursuing my own interests in various directions and to various sources of information can take me on fantastic adventures: I have stayed up till the early hours of the morning poring over old phone books; or following genealogical lines back hundreds of years; or reading a book about what lies under a certain French city; or comparing early maps of Manhattan as I search for a particular farmhouse. These adventures become as gripping as a good novel.
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Revise notes constantly—try to develop the ability to read them as though you had never seen them before, to see how well they communicate. Constant revision, whether or not you’re going to “do” anything with what you’ve written, also teaches you to write better in the first place, when you first write something down.
She also suggests reading the best writers out there and one classic per year at least. To which I say...Bleargh. Been there did that. I'm at a point now that I've read enough great writers and enough horrible ones..that I no longer think it matters. Although I do have a tendency to mimic the ones I like.
3. The Rise of the Millenial Hermits or Why No one Wants to Leave Their Apartments Any Longer? -- Forget the Millenials, I'm not sure I want to leave my apartment...
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( excerpt )
I read it in high school. I vividly remember reading it in High School along with Beowulf and Chaucer.
2. For all the frustrated writers out there, you know who you are... Lydia Davis - Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits -- and no, I've no clue who this lady is.
Did like this one though...
Be mostly self-taught.
There is a great deal to be learned from programs, courses, and teachers. But I suggest working equally hard, throughout your life, at learning new things on your own, from whatever sources seem most useful to you. I have found that pursuing my own interests in various directions and to various sources of information can take me on fantastic adventures: I have stayed up till the early hours of the morning poring over old phone books; or following genealogical lines back hundreds of years; or reading a book about what lies under a certain French city; or comparing early maps of Manhattan as I search for a particular farmhouse. These adventures become as gripping as a good novel.
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Revise notes constantly—try to develop the ability to read them as though you had never seen them before, to see how well they communicate. Constant revision, whether or not you’re going to “do” anything with what you’ve written, also teaches you to write better in the first place, when you first write something down.
She also suggests reading the best writers out there and one classic per year at least. To which I say...Bleargh. Been there did that. I'm at a point now that I've read enough great writers and enough horrible ones..that I no longer think it matters. Although I do have a tendency to mimic the ones I like.
3. The Rise of the Millenial Hermits or Why No one Wants to Leave Their Apartments Any Longer? -- Forget the Millenials, I'm not sure I want to leave my apartment...
( excerpt )