Learning to Write…

I’ve read a lot of writing books. I own forty or fifty of them, and I’ve read more than twice that many. You’d think that would make me an excellent writer…maybe, I don’t know. But just because you know something doesn’t mean you know how to do something. Yes, knowledge is the first step, but the application of that knowledge is another skill set. Someone once described it as the difference between memorizing the Encyclopedia of Basketball (Is there such a thing?) and playing with Michael Jordan. Still, you can’t work on getting good at something if you don’t know what that something is. So, out of the hundred + writing books I’ve read, I present to you my favorite. Dwight V. Swain died in 1992 and I never met him (I wish I could have), but he left this awesome book for us. Thanks!