My premise as a teacher of writing is that you have to be a teacher of reading. Reading is being empathetic. Finding a writer that you are sympatico with is the first step. The second step for me has been to honor that writer with a slow, active consideration of their writing, warts and all.
I often put the head phones on the premise of — to be a skilled writer, I have to be a skilled reader.
How do you balance responsibility to both create, and engage as audience to another? I am struggling with this dynamic.
My premise as a teacher of writing is that you have to be a teacher of reading. Reading is being empathetic. Finding a writer that you are sympatico with is the first step. The second step for me has been to honor that writer with a slow, active consideration of their writing, warts and all.
I love this sea change—or, perhaps more accurately said, this SEE change ◡̈