How To Be A Writer

From the Archive | Building piles and piles of words is not enough. Good writing has a raw, disobedient quality, a feral disposition. So how do we achieve that?

Writing is wild. People have come up with many brilliant ways to do it—many different brilliant ways.

Maybe that’s why some people think writing can’t be taught. But I think it absolutely can—it’s just that not all teachers are good fits for all learners.

That said, writing can be hard to teach, because writing is an art, and it’s personal. Plus, it’s a …