David B. Lentz
It's important to find your own voice. This isn't easy. Write about what you know best. Read relentlessly the best writers of the genres in which you choose to work. Let your soul open. Go fallow like a farmer's field and purposely don't write every now and then. If you've written for a few hours and you've arrived at a high point, then wait until tomorrow to continue the joy of writing: this approach keeps the fountainhead flowing. Every defeat is only temporary, if you are able to persist, and every victory is transitory: both belong in your writing. Edit yourself ruthlessly until you can't bear to look at your work, again: when you're ready to abandon your work, odds are that it's done. Connect and share with other writers whose work you respect. Live well and lead a full life: you are one of the few people whom you have spent your entire lifetime to get to know.
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David, I read you review of "The Sun Also Rises ' of H. Hemingway and I found very interesting so I search for this author in Goodreads and went through his books and its ratings numbers. Beside "The old man and the Sea", it looks like that Hemingway is little read by the USA public although being a noble prize and a much renounced author. Any explanation why ?
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