After reading Andy Weir’s Artemis (2017), I revisited the maddening maxim that’s haunted me for years; the sentence written on the blackboard before the professor’s even turned around: Write what you know. Or even more confusingly: Don’t write what you know! The reason why Artemis stimulated this age-old debate is because; while I didn’t think…
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5 Benefits of Writing Stories to Learn a Language
“To have another language is to possess a second soul”- Charlemagne After years of boring classes at school, the French bug bit me and its irresistible poison has remained in my veins ever since. As an adult I suddenly discovered how much I loved the process of learning a language; everything from buying a new…
What’s My (Writing) Style Again?
I think the master storyteller was right when he said: ‘If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot’—Stephen King King was referring here to the craft of writing; our use of language and the way in which each book we read…