Captain Fatty aboard Wild Card http://fattygoodlander.com/beauty |
While I enjoy reading Captain Fatty’s column each month, what makes him important to me is the role he’s played in my writing life.
It has always seemed to me that writers—people we know as writers because they are successfully writing, it’s their identity—just are. That is to say they don’t seem to have a genesis. Sure, you can read writer’s biographies, but I’ve never read one (and admittedly I’ve not read many) that really details the transformation from the person who wanted to write, to the person who wrote successfully—until I read this essay by Fatty Goodlander.
I encourage anyone interested in writing to read it. It is a joy, a real pleasure to read. It is honest and funny.
This essay did two things for me:
Harry Crews http://harrycrews.org/ |
Thank you Fatty.
--MR
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