There IS Such a Thing as Too Many Books

Too many books on writing, I mean. And also “too many in a certain length of time.”

I have friends who never read writing books for fear it will muck up their process. They’re afraid that they’ll spend too much time trying to make the writing fit what the book says it should be, and they’ll never get anywhere.

Myself, I used to think that no book (and no class, lecture, novelist, et cetera) could teach ME how to write MY books.

I know better now. I’m more likely to fall into the other tiger-pit...