Sterling Terrell

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Foreword To Story Craft, By: John Erickson

Foreword To Story Craft, By: John Erickson

The foreword to Story Craft (by John Erickson) was penned by writer and intellectual, Nancy Pearcy.

In college I read her book Total Truth – which I remember enjoying greatly.

Here’s to rereading it and dissecting it on this blog one day (soon?).

How great that a children’s fiction author I read as a child, wrote non-fiction that I enjoyed as an adult, with a foreword by a philosopher I read as a teenager.

Like I said: I enjoy it when people I like, enjoy other people I like.

I met John in person for the first time while visiting my parents in Lubbock, Texas. On arriving, I praised the Hank books to my mother (who has a Ph.D. in education) and to our amazement, the newspaper announced that John was slated to present a program at the local library the very next day.

-Nancy Pearcey

-John Erickson, Story Craft (Amazon)

Keep Rereading? Or Find Something New?

Keep Rereading? Or Find Something New?

I have posted before about rereading books that you love, but what about when all you want is to keep rereading your favorites?

This seems less and less unusual to me, particularly as time goes by.

Getting to the point of: “I have read thousands of books. And these 50 spoke to my soul the most.”

Honestly, I am nearly like this about music already.

My old favorites take up enough of my time that I find myself less and less interested in new music.

It’s time with what you might like vs. time with what you know you will like.

Understand: This is about the simple pleasure of reading.

For much of my life I have essentially read for adventure or intellectual need. I began knowing no history, literary or otherwise; now I know a fair amount. Surprises of a literary or intellectual nature have become less common. In fact, I slowly came to realize, I would now rather reread than read. In Tucson, where I mostly live and work, I have assembled a small library of books I reread—and keep rereading.

-Larry McMurtry, Literary Life (Amazon)