JA WestenbergI've been a professional writer for over a decade and it still amazes me how many folks are CONVINCED they can just do this shit. Nobody walks up to a surgeon and says "I reckon I could have a crack at that." But writing? Everyone's got a world-changing essay in them apparently. It's in there. Somewhere. Behind the spleen.
moongold@Daojoan
So true.
William Zinsser expands this thought nicely with a personal anecdote in chapter one of 'On Writing Well.'
ISBN 0-06-273523-3
Harper Perennial.
I'm just now reading it for the first time. Well worth a read so far if this helps other aspiring writers.
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