Ask the Author: Andrew Case
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Andrew Case
A modern book of letters between a man and woman who become extraordinary friends.
Andrew Case
I read. Especially poetry.
Andrew Case
Find an author you want to emulate and study their writing, even down to the detailed structure of their narratives. Write only what hasn't been written. If you write what has already been written, make sure you have read everything that has been written like it and that you can improve upon it. Don't write to express yourself. To paraphrase one author, if you haven't got anything better to express than yourself, don't be a writer. Read lots of writers that are dead. Don't write as though you're writing the script of a movie. Movies aren't books, and books aren't movies. If a book is written like a movie then you might as well watch the movie instead. Do things with your writing that movies can't, and do them gloriously. Pray. Ask God for wisdom. Be saturated with the Bible--the most popular book in the world. Learn from how the biblical writers wrote: their detailed structures, their timing, their subjects and emphases and metaphor. Read best-sellers from 100, 200, and 300 years ago and learn from them. Write for fun and for God, and not merely to please man.
Andrew Case
I read a LOT, and that usually inspires me. Otherwise writing is usually a discipline that I need to make myself begin. Once I start, duty usually melds into delight.
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