Threading Words, by Clifford Thurlow
leer en españolIf you have a box of multi-coloured beads and thread them on a silver chain, the necklace you make will be original: an illustration of your taste and talent—or its absence.If a hundred people make a necklace from the same set of beads, they will all be different. Some will be a mess, others mediocre, perhaps one a masterpiece.Writing is like that. You have a lexicon of words and the writer must lay them out on a thread that is pleasing, compelling, rhythmic—luscious as honey poured from a jar. Bad writing is like garbage thrown into the street: noisy, careless, impossible to ignore.So can you learn how to write?Mozart was composing sonatas at the age of five, but he still had to learn how to play the piano. He did so on his father’s knee from the age of three. Mozart was ta...