I decided it was time to improve my writing. It felt both forced and stifled: artless, lifeless, joyless and uninteresting. And my reading was falling off too, both in quantity and quality. The two problems — with writing and reading — seemed connected. I hoped reading more (and more importantly, reading better) would help me write [...]
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields One of 2010′s most talked written-about books. For anyone interested in writing and storytelling this might be worth owning and occasionally flipping through for inspiration. A lot of great insights about truth and fiction — and whether either can really exist in pure form — much of which [...]
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I signed up for Goodreads last summer and now I’m finally using it thanks to the fact I actually know other people on there — the whole point of it is to make book-reading more social. Here’s my profile if you’re interested in friending-up — the more, the better. I signed up after reading an [...]
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