Writing Book 7 · Lesson 7

Learning to Write: General Thoughts

A writer reads for the choices another writer made.

What you read today

The Writing of Literature, pages 5–5 — the chapter Learning to Write: General Thoughts.

This lesson's text is the book itself. Your teacher has the pages; read them with the class, then do the work on your sheet.

Remember
Read it as a writer: not only what happens, but what the author did to make it happen that way.
Ask yourself: “What did the author DO here, and what would have been lost without it?”

Remember

Read it as a writer: not what happened, but what the author did.

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