I love E.B. White. His essays, his fiction, and his update to Strunk’s Style Guide. He has a way with words that puts me to shame. Take this short paragraph on writing from the Elements of Style: Writing is, for most, laborious and slow. The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up. Like other gunners, Read more…