C. S. Lewis, advice to a young writer https://t.co/1dfNRcUAA3

In 1985, Kurt Vonnegut released a little-known essay with his 8 tips on ‘How to Write With Style.’ I come back to it again and again. Gold: *** 1. Find a subject you care about My writing reads like unmitigated slop when I don’t care... See more

This is why it’s very difficult to teach people how to write, because first you have to teach them how to care. Or, really, you have to show them how to channel their caring, because they already care a lot, but they don’t know how to turn that into words, or they don’t see why they should.

Instead, we rob students of their reason for writing by... See more