A writer's duty well done

One Continuous Mistake by Gail Sher

All writers apart from writing their 'magnum opuses' should make their 'key to their art' available in the form of writing or records for interested readers who wish to know what writing meant to the authors, how they went about ideas etc.

Gail Sher has done a good job of letting us know not only the above things but also how other authors like Woolf, Thoreau and so on interacted with writing.

While writing about the four truths for writers, she also tells us how writing a haiku has got her stated on writing, the common fallacies like getting discouraged by feedback,how to deal with the well known writers block and well sated 'writers anorexia' that writers are bound to get stuck with, how much of reading is good or bad for writing, the importance of a making a habit of writing.

Five Pillars of writing is an excellent chapter on how to start with 'flat writing' of everyday events and trying to build something out of it in phases.

Her truths all echo 'write' which is a message well sent across in the book.

June 4, 2006