Александра Качан (Редактор)
• “What not reading does to your writing.” Lincoln Michel is one of my favorite chroniclers of life as a professional writer, and the point he concludes on here really is the simplest, most effective advice I can give to anyone who wants to write better: “The best way for this author to improve their writing is simple. They should read a few good books.” I notice it in myself. When I am not actively reading fiction, my writing gets more flat.
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I suspect rather strongly that premodern people, too, experienced the physical world more acutely than I do, simply because my brain has been stewing in dopamine-spiking stimuli for four decades now, rarely pausing to touch the proverbial grass. Don’t get me wrong: I like the outdoors a lot. But my waking existence is spent mostly indoors in highly artificial spaces, whereas humans have typically spent the vast majority of their time outdoors in nature. Consider my ancestors, who, as best I can tell, were primarily illiterate peasants and smallhold farmers. They spent a significant proportion of their waking hours literally touching grass.
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