News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #117…

Readers can be formulaic too. Many writers become formulaic over time. This is partly due to the same reason a K-6 teacher, instead of teaching each grade in succession to keep her or his teaching skills fresh, prefers to keep on doing the same thing, grade 2, say, year after year, over and over again—it’s the easy way out, and, if s/he’s successful at it (that becomes a less appropriate adjective with time, of course), why not continue? In the writing world, a perceived market preference for...