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It's been a while since I've posted or shared what's on my reading list. I figured it's time for an update. I've been reading quite a bit recently, both fiction and non-fiction, and it is always fun to talk about books, writers, stories and things to learn....
The problem with the self-taught, is that they can be sloppy. It takes only confidence with a few terms in an obscure field's lexicon for the average listener to deduce that the speaker is an expert - but any casual reading in any given field can make you sound like...
It's not as bad as it sounds. No, really. I know everyone intelligent is tired as hell of one superhero special effects fest after the other. And I know that no blockbuster in the last ten years had an original idea anywhere close to its plot, or hell, even anywhere...
Writers are by their very natures intensely curious about their craft. They write, and they read, and they want to know how to get better. They read up about the components of storytelling - and may at times focus on things like plot, or character, or dialogue, or...
It's hard to write a book. And yet, perusing the shelves and having a look at the books making waves and wreaking havoc in people's psyches, it is perhaps still a little too easy. Any ole person can take any ole angle, slap it across a few pages, season it with some...