TSP: Tiphanie Yanique: "A Reader Is Always a Child"

TSP: Tiphanie Yanique: "A Reader Is Always a Child": "In the 32nd in a series of posts on 2010 short story collections entered for The Story Prize, Tiphanie Yanique, author of How to Escape from..."

Book Notes: Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens

Book Notes: Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
There's so much interesting READING to read. What a universe out there.

Soliloquy

I wonder if this is a total waste of time. It's like muttering in a corner. If I knew that there might eventually be a discussion, I'd mutter about something of interest to people who write and read fiction. How on earth does a blog earn an audience. Coo-eee?

Is fiction writing like cycling?

People say that you never forget how to ride a bike. If you haven't written fiction for a while, do you remember clearly how to do it? Do you wobble? Fall off? Or wobble, find your balance, and speed away?

And what about blogging and tweeting? I wonder if that too is like learning how to ride a bike. I'm beginning to see how to go about this.