Just because you have finished your education as a writer does not mean you are done learning, indeed, writing is something that you never stop learning, exploring and perfecting.
Always wondering if you might have said this, that or the other thing in a better way, creating more interest, suspense, intrigue or igniting passion in the reader, yes, with writing you never stop learning.
But how can we learn more and grow each day with our writing? How can we join others who are in search of writing excellence and how can we become an integral part of the ever evolving writing community? It is questions like these that have always made me think as an amateur writer who is slowing graduating into a second career that never in a million years would I have anticipated.
Just recently, I bought an interesting book on this subject at a used book store, and my find has changed the way I view writing and writers and the community they make up, which like it or not, I am becoming part of.
This book I refer to and would like to recommend to you is: "The Writer's Community" by David J.
Klooster and Patricia L.
Bloom; St Martin's Press, New York, 1995.
Both of these authors are writing professors at the University level, further than I had ever gotten in school with my writing, having dropped out of Journalism Class in Junior High after receiving a D+, the worst grade I ever got in all my schooling, except for a Tax Accounting Law Class in college, another class I dumped.
This book is packed with easy to digest information presented in a philosophical fashioned aimed at bringing you back to writing.
And it did just that for me.
If you need to re-learn the basics you once learned in writing college, then I highly recommend this book as a GREAT refresher course.
It broken into easy chapters and if you read one chapter a day as you continue your writing, you will vastly improve your writing skills.
I highly recommend it.