![]() ![]() While a school setting can be helpful, with a chance to workshop with other writers and often published professors, I enjoy the opportunity to work at my own pace. It almost felt like I was a baby again being taught how to walk by my parents.Īnd this is how I’ve felt about most writer’s guides I’ve encountered. I felt comfortable with him, as if I could practice and make mistakes and not be penalized for them. ![]() ![]() I was fascinated by my connection with the writer it felt like I was having a conversation with him, rather than being preached to by someone who felt he was above me. I fell in love with it within the first few pages, and seated myself at the cafe (being lucky enough to find a seat there–anyone who knows how crowded New York City Barnes & Nobles are knows it must have been fate) to flip through it while my mother finished shopping. I don’t exactly remember how I came upon it, but I picked up a book titled The Writer’s Idea Workshop by Jack Heffron. I was in Barnes & Noble, sometime in my early years of high school when I was first toying with the idea of writing for a living. I’ll never forget the first time I encountered a Writer’s Guide. ![]()
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