Monday, February 15, 2021

I Love [What I'm] Writing [About]



S.C. Gwynne, the author of Empire of the Summer Moon - New York Times Bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist, was asked by AdviceToWriters

What’s your advice to new writers? 

Gwynne replied: 

[...] I would say the most important thing is to discover what you want to write about.

And I would agree with Gwynne, because writers don’t particularly love writing, but they love what they write about.


Sunday, February 7, 2021

THE PARIS REVIEW'S "Eat Your Words" | Food in Literature

 


The Paris Review's website has an Eat Your Words category that's described as: "Cooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers", which reminded me that I'm not the only writer who enjoys reading about food in novels. How about an example from Nabokov's Ada:

The classical beauty of clover honey, smooth, pale, translucent, freely flowing from the spoon and soaking my love's bread and butter in liquid brass. The crumb steeped in nectar.