A worthy essay.
*I displaced Amanda’s monthly guest post yesterday for the character blog tour, so I’m putting it up today. I’ll add one thing to what she says below — well, a few — when my kids were in elementary, there was a city program where they were given incentives to read. Read x pages get a burger. Read x pages get a movie ticket. I never let them participate in the program. Why not (besides meanness?) Because I didn’t want them to think of reading as a chore you had to be compensated for. This is the mentality I keep running into, even from thirty somethings “reading is a chore and you need to give me stuff so I’ll read.” For some this becomes “reading is a chore, so I’ll read only ‘improving’ materials. And thus we come to writers who think that writing is kind of school work and that…
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A Life Un-Lived 