by jasonbatt | Jun 23, 2014 | Books, Books on Writing, Writing, writing craft
Part VI of my series on books that have influenced me as a writer. Bradbury, Ray. The Zen in the Art of Writing. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1990. Print. As so many of Bradbury’s words, The Zen in the Art of Writing is an electric tour through the heart and mind of a...
by jasonbatt | Jun 20, 2014 | Books, Books on Writing, Writing, writing craft
Part V in my series of book that have influenced me as a writer. Hemingway, Ernest. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. New York: Simon and Shuster, Inc., 2002. Print. To learn a skill, it is good advice to study the masters. Hemingway is truly a master of...
by jasonbatt | Jun 19, 2014 | Books, Books on Writing, Writing, writing craft
Part IV in my series of book that have influenced me as a writer. Delaney, Samuel. About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, and Five Interviews. Middleton, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2005. Print. Delaney lays out his grandfatherly wisdom through his...
by jasonbatt | Jun 16, 2014 | Books, Books on Writing, Writing, writing craft
Part III in my series of book that have influenced me as a writer. McKee, Robert. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting. New York: Regan Books, 1997. Print. While designed for film and the aspiring screenwriter, McKee maintains a...
by jasonbatt | Jun 10, 2014 | Books, Books on Writing, writing craft
This is the first post in a series of books that have influenced my approach to writing. Miller, Henry. Henry Miller on Writing. New York: New Direction Books, 1964. Print. I first encountered Miller via an online post of his “11 Commandments of Writing”. These...
by jasonbatt | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog, Writing, writing craft
My son is a Lego addict. At home, he has boxes and boxes of the tiny, plastic blocks. At school, in his aftercare program, he only gets a box of about one hundred Legos. Every evening when I pick him up he smiles and holds up his day’s creation with those one hundred...