Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet, provides some great writing advice for writers: “One thing I think that writers can try to do is understand how they read. When you pick up a book and half way through the first page you’re not interested, what is it that’s failing to grab your attention? What is it that’s missing? What is it exactly that bores you? And in turn when you write, are you doing any of those things yourself?”
This is great. One thing creative writing classes too often fail to encourage or even mention is that everybody reads differently.
