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Belle Cooper on Learning How to Write
Belle Beth Cooper just contributed her last post so far to the GHOST blog. It's about Learning to Write and she tells a pretty great story about reading a bunch of books about that.
What's really great is the way she makes you empathise with her and describes the relationship she develops with the individual authors. It was a pleasure to read and join her in this experience.
Simply by exposing myself to wonderful writing, great examples of the craft, honest accounts of the writing process that speak to me with finesse and polish so the words sink in is my education. My writing is improving through osmosis. I'm picking up on how to craft a better sentence, how to reach a reader, how to employ language to the best of my ability. I'm taking it all in, even if I can't highlight it on the page.With that paragraph she makes a really important and also wonderful point. We need to expose ourselves to great things, before we meaningfully can transform all that into something even better. It's essential to not accept things that are wrong or flawed as something thats probably fine.
This doesn't only go for writing, but of course also for coding, photography and all kinds of other things. Surround yourself with authors, photographers, software engineers and people you look up to, no matter if physically or in the media you consume. Pay attention when witnessing them.
Read the full post here: 5 books, 10 days: my DIY writing education