If you read and/or listen to this little show, you’re likely a writer of some kind.
In an age of life hacks and the seduction of short cuts and quick hits, we often seek answers to questions that will take out the growing pains, smooth over the pavement when what we really need to do is drive over those potholes and feel the chassis rattle.
And I guess what I’m saying is the answers are already on your bookshelf. I’m looking over at mine right now. Who do I most want to emulate on my way to finding my voice?
Pull down the book.
Get in there and read it with intention. Stew over it on a low heat. Stir the words around. Write in the margins. Take a big-picture view of the structure of the book then the micro-structure of each chapter.
The answers to how to do this are in the books. They aren’t how-to or prescriptive in the traditional sense. Rather, it’s a whole lot like Jeopardy!
The books have already given you answer: You now have to engineer the question. And it’s along that journey that these books will teach all you ever need to know about this silly little game.
