Yeah, So I Think I've Decided I Want To Be A Novelist!!!!

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Originally Posted by Stew_Matthews

Sasja is right to say how important it is to learn your craft. I guess the same applies whatever job you do. If you’re going to write well, you have to read quality authors who produce work with some variety and depth. There has been a long list of American authors who have a really strong body of work including – Mark Twain, Henry James, F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin and more recently Richard Ford. All wrote superb short stories and brilliant novels.

Without starting a debate about the relative merits of your favourite ‘author’ – read Henry James and F Scott Fitzgerald – I think they encapsulate everything that writing in the English language is about.

Yeah, we just got done reading Great Gatsby in class. Very good book.