(June 29, 2018 at 1:23 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(June 29, 2018 at 12:57 am)Shell B Wrote: Reading a lot is essential to writing well. Anyone who tells you different is a brick brain.
Not sure I fully agree with you on that. I'd say it can certainly help, but I read very little and most opinions of my writing have been very positive.
For prose your writing is aces but have you tried your hand at fiction? Personally, I can't even tell a joke straight let alone put a story together to make it interesting. But like you my prose got some recognition. When the philosopher Fred Dretski was at Cal for a year I took his theory of knowledge class and got high marks on the three papers and the only A+ I received while I was there. So I asked for a letter of recommendation from the professor in case I decided to apply to a graduate program. In it he said that he and his teaching assistants agreed that my writing was at least the equal of the graduate students taking the class. But when it comes to building a case I doff my hat to you Jorms.
