Archive for February 24th, 2009
Tips from Delany and Didion: let your nonconscious mind make you a better writer
In my classes and with clients, I teach the conscious development of craft, with an eye toward making the processes of reading and writing more explicit. However, there is an additional route - and that is to read as much as possible of the genres you enjoy, so that nonconsciously you absorb the forms and expectations and pleasures of these genres as if through the pores of your skin. After which writing in those genres becomes not so much easier as more natural.
