Not sure how to compose your first words? Be a good observer
Dionne Codrington | CBC News | Posted: January 9, 2018 5:11 PM | Last Updated: November 5, 2019
This writing tip is from Ruth DyckFehderau.
"Good writing comes down to careful observation and simple prose, to a writer paying close attention to involuntary movements and postures that reveal a person's state of mind or some other truth about a situation and then to articulating those observations in one uncluttered sentence after another."
Ruth Dyck Fehderau teaches creative writing and English literature at the University of Alberta for a few months of each year. The rest of the time she travels and writes. She is currently working on a novel and on a second nonfiction book with the James Bay Cree of northern Quebec. Her story Charity's Test made the longlist for the 2017 CBC Nonfiction Prize.