I sympathize with your feelings regarding Masterclass, though I've yet to take the plunge myself. I feel similarly conflicted after learning something during a webinar. How are you supposed to know which 2% will be enriching?
Whenever I read writing on writing, I think of this "writing manual of sorts" by Gene Olson called "Sweet Agony." I don't remember how I came to own it, and it's doubtless out of print by now, but it revels in its subject, and the joy is infectious, even if its advice is fairly obvious. In a section titled "Concrete and Cannon Balls," Olson uses the following quote to illustrate the value of specific, concrete words:
"Proud Prelate, You know what you were before I made you what you are now. If you do not immediately comply with my request, I will unfrock you. By God. ELIZABETH."
As in Queen Elizabeth I. She would have been great at Twitter.
Thank you for this view into your writing voyage (nautical analogy intended).
I sympathize with your feelings regarding Masterclass, though I've yet to take the plunge myself. I feel similarly conflicted after learning something during a webinar. How are you supposed to know which 2% will be enriching?
Whenever I read writing on writing, I think of this "writing manual of sorts" by Gene Olson called "Sweet Agony." I don't remember how I came to own it, and it's doubtless out of print by now, but it revels in its subject, and the joy is infectious, even if its advice is fairly obvious. In a section titled "Concrete and Cannon Balls," Olson uses the following quote to illustrate the value of specific, concrete words:
"Proud Prelate, You know what you were before I made you what you are now. If you do not immediately comply with my request, I will unfrock you. By God. ELIZABETH."
As in Queen Elizabeth I. She would have been great at Twitter.
Thank you for this view into your writing voyage (nautical analogy intended).