Friday, 16 September 2011

Excerpt from 'Things I Have Learned in a Decade of Freelance Writing'

READ: If you’re not reading absolutely everything you can get your hands on, you’re doing it wrong (again, it’s tax deductible). Read the papers, magazines, zines, blogs, The Bible, fairy-tales, the personals sections, the liner notes on old records. “Writers” who suspend themselves in some hermetically-sealed bubble of their own brilliance are boring. (ED - my emphasis)


Link to original article: http://clembastow.tumblr.com/post/10253898011/things-i-have-learned-in-a-decade-of-freelance-writing