What Every Writer Should Know
And what every reader should know as well
There is something magical about writing that compels authors to return to the page over and over again. Of course, this magical subset also entices readers, but I wonder if the reader understands a critical aspect of writing: writing has its own energy.
While the traditional greats may argue this proclamation, the demand for the written word that the advent of social media created circumvents early arguments in history.
Edgar Allan Poe believed that the writer must know how the story will end for the writer to complete an engaging composition (Amary, 2010). Ernest Hemingway agreed with Poe on this notion but added a step to the writer’s repertoire with the “theory of omission.”
Hemingway stated that a writer should know his characters so well that he would omit details to control how the text influences the reader. I boldly contend that both are untrue (Amary, 2010).
After working as a Writing Specialist for many years with an array of students, and clients, writing often manifests independent of the writer’s stream of consciousness.
