I have just started a new book, which I chose because I thought it would give me a standard to aim for in my writing. The blurb calls the writer ‘strikingly elegant’ (I assume in her prose not her person!) and the subject matter is domestic reality, which is really where all my stories are centred.
These made it seem like a good read for learning and improving my own work.
However, I am a little concerned by the start. It is not to my taste, I kept losing focus and having to re-read lines, and after only a short space of time I am left with limited memory of the section except it being vaguely irritating. I will carry on but I wasn’t really engaged.
Saying that, I do remember noticing some interesting descriptions and an unusual choice of words here and there which I did appreciate. Maybe it will all make more sense when I get a bit further…
It’s not a huge book so I hope to finish by next week – if I haven’t, I have probably given up!
Happy reading,
EJ
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Becoming a writer 
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