Wolf Girl 1

Q: What experience or knowledge is required to do your job? Wolfgirl.

A: By my "job," I presume you mean "Writer" or "Novelist," as opposed to
teacher/professor of English.

As far is knowledge is concerned, a writer must have lived and experienced the world. I once heard that by the time you reach16, you have at least one full-length book in you--your autobiography.

Writers go through life with their eyes open.

Writers pay attention to everything. They are fascinated by life and
humans and culture and conflict--they want to know what makes people
tick.

Also, a writer must be a good reader. A writer must love
reading. Many great writers never completed a formal education--but
they had read probably every book they could get their hands on.
Writers must be readers, but of course this only makes sense. Writers
are in the business of putting words on the page, in the business of
making books--why then should it be a surprise that they love books?

The best way to learn how to write is to read. A writer must always be
reading.


Thanks Wolfgirl,

Preston