Boiling Water
From George Saunders, on nuance and embracing complexity:
... See morethe writer doesn't have to have a fixed firm idea, but has to be able to take the reader on a journey to remind her that the world is complicated. From the very beginning, I understood writing to be about some kind of moral or ethical imperative. Absent that, I'm not that interested in it, ac
Word for word, this is the most insightful book on writing I’ve found.
7 of my favorite ideas from it:
1. Story as a Transfer of Energy
“We might think of a story as a system for the transfer of energy. Energy, hopefully, gets made in the early pages and the tric... See more