Finding Insight in a Book

I’ve never been a self-help or how-to kind of reader. I didn’t read how-to books or articles about parenting, because I knew the kind of kids I wanted to raise and I instinctively got the notion of modeling the behavior you want. When I decided to get serious about writing, I didn’t read how to books. I figured I would just sit down and figure it out myself.

This past week, however, I was given a book that was, at the very least, “insightful” when it comes to being a writer. It doesn’t tell yo...