The art and craft of writing from a writer's viewpoint
I just finished reading Daniel James Brown’s bestselling book The Boys in the Boat. I know I’ve read a really, really good book when there’s a kind of sadness when I get to the final page, and I close the book in awe of the writer’s ability to tell the story. I’ve long said that a book …
Continue reading Books every serious writer should read …. and study
Anyone who has read about the writing life of C.S. Lewis has, no doubt, come across his references to George MacDonald’s Phantastes. The book inspired Lewis like none other. He writes about how MacDonald's book opened his mind to the world of imagination, which he eventually came to understand was God-given and incredibly freeing. Recently—out of curiosity—I ordered …
M.K.B. GRAHAM, author of CAIRNAERIE & FLEURINGALA 