Thanks for the tip! I think the trick is to mind what I'm reading. I must have read thousand books by now, but because I used to just read for pleasure, I never really noticed the styles or grammars.
Just yesterday, I was reading Ursula Le Guin's The Other Wind again, and realized how simple yet powerful each sentences were. It's important to read for pleasure from time to time; but for me, I think I need to learn a bit more from the masters and pay attention to their works.
Perhaps everyone else has been doing that; it's new to me.
For now, I am trying to 'imitate/learn' Ursula and Terry Goodkind's style by reading their work a sentence at a time. For someone who finishes a novel in a day or two, it's a slow pace but I'm hoping it will help--something I should have done a decade ago, I admit.
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Date: 2009-03-23 02:43 am (UTC)Just yesterday, I was reading Ursula Le Guin's The Other Wind again, and realized how simple yet powerful each sentences were. It's important to read for pleasure from time to time; but for me, I think I need to learn a bit more from the masters and pay attention to their works.
Perhaps everyone else has been doing that; it's new to me.
For now, I am trying to 'imitate/learn' Ursula and Terry Goodkind's style by reading their work a sentence at a time. For someone who finishes a novel in a day or two, it's a slow pace but I'm hoping it will help--something I should have done a decade ago, I admit.