Writing Book 7 · Lesson 22

Read Your Head Off — the anthology

The anthology is read for volume and pleasure, not for analysis.

What you read today

The Writing of Literature, pages 122–129 — the chapter Read Your Head Off — the anthology.

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: “Am I reading this because I want to?”

Remember

Read more than you are taught. That is the whole instruction.

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