Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Block.

This past weekend, on the plane and the train rides from SLC to Princeton and back, I spent my time wrecking my writing: I read Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the 2001 winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Every one of Chabon's sentences was so disarmingly inventive and surprising and right that I've tried to draft three different posts since then and scrapped each one. How can I complete a post when people like Chabon are ou

1 comments:

daine said...

If we didn't all write normally good sentences, Chabon's sentences wouldn't look as fabulous. If any of us decided that we couldn't write unless it was up to such a standard, we'd all be silent.