Seducing Your Reader. Want To Be A Writer? Then Make It Something You Can’t Be Without.
By Kate Gould
Writing at its best seduces. This is your aim: to take readers into the world of your making and convince them to stay. The urge to write begins with enticement and so should the urge to read. You got into writing for all manner of reasons: love, ego, boredom, money, fame. What you need to keep you in it is passion. Writing should become a compulsion to you. Nothing less will make that world. You want to write? Then make it something you can’t be without. “Language is wine upon the lips,” said Virginia Woolf. So it should be with you. Here is what writing should do to you if you’re to seduce your readers and infect them with your passion for words.
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About the author:
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Kate Gould has worked as an editor, book critic, columnist, slush pile reader, writing competition judge, hotel critic, magazine editor, English teacher, and research assistant. She is now Chief Editorial Consultant at The Fine Line. Her book on flashers, Exposing Phallacy, is to be published by Zero Books. |
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Kate….!
Good piece on writing….!
Enjoyed…..!
Comment by satyapal — April 17, 2010 @ 1:40 pm
Okay, please don’t take this the wrong way but that was written like a literary orgasm. You started out nice and slow, then built up fast and heavy, then eased off. I rather enjoyed it. ::smiling::
Comment by Laura Kaponer — June 1, 2010 @ 3:20 pm