Challenge
Tell us about THE book, story, or poem that changed your life. The one that brought you to love words.
The love of reading, or the love of words is something writers share. Tell us about THE book, story, or poem that changed your life. Give us a synopsis of the piece, with the author and title. If you want to, tell us why we should read it if we already haven't.
Only one rule: You can only pick ONE piece. Don't over think it -- pick the one piece that has stayed with you more than the others. We all have reads that we couldn't put down, and some we forged through even though it was painful.
So tell us about the piece of literature that stays with you, that sparked your imagination, that made you want to put pen to paper and tell your stories, your words, your poetry.
Fellow Prosers- Read through these posts as they (hopefully) come in. Is there a book you've read? Let us know in the comments. One you need to read? Let us know that, too. Let's interact and get a feel for what inspires us to give our words to the world.
I adored and devoured her novels. Her confidence in surprising the reader with new vocabulary, challenging us to pick up dictionaries and bookmark certain words, eagerly asking us to engage and allow her to expand our, apparently and comparably limited, lexicon.
She wrote homoerotic novels featuring incestuous wizards, some of which lamed by magic.
Her books still nestle comfortably beside Faulkner and David Foster Wallace. I keep the many post-its of learned words taped to the inside of their hard covers.
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