A story I liked

In the last short post I wrote, I wrote that "by reading you can learn so many things about writing, life and everything else on earth."

I didn't just mean that you learn tings that are written into the books, and described there.

No, you can learn so much by reading other people’s texts and by thinking how it was written.

I used to write really long paragraphs in everything I wrote, and I found it awkward to write a dialogue.

So I started paying attention to how other people write paragraphs and dialogues. And then I started to think about what was good and working in their approach and if it would make my writing style better.

I have still a long way to travel in improving myself as a writer, because you can always improve yourself, but I have the feeling that the most I have learned about writing I have learned by reading and paying attention.

This is why I wanted to share with you this text that I found oddly compelling and that I liked a lot. The text "A Letter to My Creative-Writing Class" is from The New Yorker and it is written by Lucas Gardner. You should definitely go and read the text too.

After you have read it, you can think about whether you liked it and why.

I liked this short story because it was written in an interesting way, in an interesting perspective.

The text was presented as a part of a larger background story that we didn't have any knowledge of, but still one got the hang of it quickly. I also liked the difference in the fact how the writer tells about himself compared to how he comes across to us. Just great work.

Now I just have to think about what made this so good.