Writing depends on choosing one word over another and asking what each word is conveying. Words to a writer are tools like colors to a painter. When we’re stuck writing a party scene, we can pull up James Joyce’s, The Dead, to see how he orchestrated “the voices of the party guests into a chorus from which the principal players step forward.”
She suggests keeping examples of craft aspects in great stories on our reference shelf. We learn something new rereading a classic, and if we dissect a story to see how it’s constructed, a kind of osmosis occurs. We also discover that there are no rules. In Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose says that by deliberate and slow “close reading” works in literature written by the masters, we become better writers.
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