This is me getting back to you :
I really enjoyed the first section of the Richard Wright piece, I love when a writer makes comparison within the story simply with the diction. In the first piece of The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, Wright tells about a fight between him and the white boys that live across the train tracks. I enjoy the expanded metaphor he uses throughout the fight. Using war terminology, places much emphasis on the fight, making it seem greater than it is. "The sight of blood pouring over my face completely demoralized our ranks."
Reading an exerpt from Kings novel On Writing, i learned that every book, or at least he believes, "has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones." They teach what NOT to do.
And what is "more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff ?" I picked this qoute because i completely agree, being forced to read The Brigeroom by Ha Jin, more than once that exact thought went through my head; I or writers i know, that have yet to be published, have written "unquestionably better" pieces of literature.
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