After reading the book '30 Women in Power - Their Voices, Their Stories’, I have started reading the next book - '13 Ways of Looking at the Novel', written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley.
She impressed me with a fabulous introduction that reveals the inside-the-head feelings of a writer. I felt it analogous to my thoughts. Many times, a dry spell occurs for a writer and he/she tends to analyze what is wrong with him/her. Ms. Smiley has expressed her experience vividly in the introduction. Usually, many writers do not reveal much about the mental transitions.
In order to cross the hurdle she faced while writing the novel 'Good Faith', she decided to read 100 novels. The outcome is this book.
By reading 100 novels, she has analyzed the compositions of a novel, novelist, etc. Typically, this book is exclusive to those who wish to become writers. As the chapters go, the texts read more like academic writings. Apparently, Ms. Smiley’s teaching experience has reflected in this.
I have decided to go through each page by taking notes from each chapter. Hence, this book is sure to steal some major time from me.
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