Bryan - this is probably one of the central recommendations I give to the writers I coach, for all the reasons you've mentioned! I read constantly, and almost always with a yellow highlighter pen and fingers itching to dog-ear pages. I've been on an Edna Ferber kick recently...I'm reading Giant now, which (and I have no idea how) I have never read before. I read all kinds of contemporary fiction also (also on an historical fiction wave). I loved Ken Powers' new book Bewilderment. I loved it so much...can you win more than one Pulitzer Prize for fiction?? :) If so, this one qualifies as much as his 2019 winner, The Overstory. I could hang out and talk about great books all day long...:) Here's an example of what I do with my yellow highlighting; this one is in honor of Maggie Shipstead's great use of metaphor and simile in Great Circle...https://medium.com/@suzanne_fresh_voice/crafting-metaphor-simile-5740b6c9aa01
Bryan - this is probably one of the central recommendations I give to the writers I coach, for all the reasons you've mentioned! I read constantly, and almost always with a yellow highlighter pen and fingers itching to dog-ear pages. I've been on an Edna Ferber kick recently...I'm reading Giant now, which (and I have no idea how) I have never read before. I read all kinds of contemporary fiction also (also on an historical fiction wave). I loved Ken Powers' new book Bewilderment. I loved it so much...can you win more than one Pulitzer Prize for fiction?? :) If so, this one qualifies as much as his 2019 winner, The Overstory. I could hang out and talk about great books all day long...:) Here's an example of what I do with my yellow highlighting; this one is in honor of Maggie Shipstead's great use of metaphor and simile in Great Circle...https://medium.com/@suzanne_fresh_voice/crafting-metaphor-simile-5740b6c9aa01