Writing Book 7 · Lesson 25

Learning to Write: General Thoughts

A text re-read after doing the work yourself gives up more than it did the first time.

What you read today

The Writing of Literature, pages 6–6 — 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 do I see here now that I did not see in the autumn?”

Remember

Second time through the same chapter, with a year's more writing behind you.

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