Tag: Francine Prose

• Writing advice, distilled…

  Every writer must eventually write a book about writing. It’s some sort of unspoken rule. Due to my lifelong interest in the writing process, I’ve read a fair number of these advice manuals. (Two of my favorites are Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley and Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose, because both of these books say…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 26, 2015

  Notebook

  Advice, Anne Lamott, Books about writing, Creativity, Francine Prose, How to write, Jane Smiley, Writers, Writing

• Most influential authors…

  I keep a record of what I read in LibraryThing. I haven’t recorded every book I’ve ever read, because I don’t remember (boy, I wish I had started keeping a list at the age of 5 or something). But I have recorded almost 1,200 books, so I thought I’d take a look at my authors…

  Shannon Turlington

  March 17, 2015

  Notebook

  Christopher Moore, Edward Gorey, Francine Prose, Fred Chappell, Influence, Jane Austen, jonathan lethem, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kim Stanley Robinson, LibraryThing, Lists, Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Tom Perrotta, Ursula K Le Guin, Writers

• How to be a better reader…

  I spotted this question on Quora: How does one become a better reader and what does it mean to be a better reader? Here is my answer. Being a better reader, I would say, means that you choose higher quality books that can enlighten as well as entertain you. By high quality, I don’t just…

  Shannon Turlington

  June 27, 2011

  Notebook

  Close reading, Francine Prose, Quora, Reading, Reading Like a Writer