How I love this! I will read this essay again and again, looking forward to the salute toward the end each time. Chills about writing as ghost story. The imagined reader not yet embodied and then the absent author. Wow! So well said, "Too much creative (and academic) writing doesn’t do the whole delivering on the promise of the story’s initial problem" - something I realized last night after I hit send on my 2nd post for Substack. This whole platform was so mysterious to me - still is a bit - but I'm so glad to be here and find your writing and admire how you deftly you manage the big ideas that you've set in motion.
Aw, thank you so much for your amazing words! They were so wonderful to read this morning. I think you're doing a great job with your Substack. I loved the room of one's own post so much. I am still dreaming about what I could write in one of those...
Yes! The writing shed dream. And now I must read Cassuto's book as well. (And I love how you come at books from an angle - much more satisfying than reading a straight up review.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I have been loving your newsletter! I have also been looking forward to those library talks. Yesterday's was really thought-provoking...
Thank you! Yes, I liked his book on baseball as well, which is saying a lot since I'm not the biggest baseball fan. It just goes to show what making a subject entertaining and accessible to even the non-target audience can do.
Really enjoyed this post. All writers and potential writers should read it and then go eat a sandwich
Ha, thanks so much! I’m really enjoying your new Substack!
How I love this! I will read this essay again and again, looking forward to the salute toward the end each time. Chills about writing as ghost story. The imagined reader not yet embodied and then the absent author. Wow! So well said, "Too much creative (and academic) writing doesn’t do the whole delivering on the promise of the story’s initial problem" - something I realized last night after I hit send on my 2nd post for Substack. This whole platform was so mysterious to me - still is a bit - but I'm so glad to be here and find your writing and admire how you deftly you manage the big ideas that you've set in motion.
Aw, thank you so much for your amazing words! They were so wonderful to read this morning. I think you're doing a great job with your Substack. I loved the room of one's own post so much. I am still dreaming about what I could write in one of those...
Yes! The writing shed dream. And now I must read Cassuto's book as well. (And I love how you come at books from an angle - much more satisfying than reading a straight up review.
Love it, Caroline! And thanks for all the links.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I have been loving your newsletter! I have also been looking forward to those library talks. Yesterday's was really thought-provoking...
Really good. You made the point using sandwich metaphors that “good writing” is different than “writing.” And you got me to look up J. K.!
Thanks so much, and I love that you looked up J.K.!
Entertaining post! As a side-note, I did enjoy Cassuto's book on baseball: https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Baseball-Leonard-Cassuto/dp/0521145759
Thank you! Yes, I liked his book on baseball as well, which is saying a lot since I'm not the biggest baseball fan. It just goes to show what making a subject entertaining and accessible to even the non-target audience can do.