Writing better: vague “suggestions” from William Gass

  1. Continue work…
  2. Study the masters…
  3. Do deliberate exercises…
  4.  Regularly enter notes…sharpen that peculiar and forgetful eye…
  5. Take to sketching…details…exactitude…
  6. Become steeped in history…
  7. …the better word…the better word…the better word…
  8. Figure it will be five years before any…
  9. Wait…

From In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

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