Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.
The thing that makes vivid writing is when the reader is in the body of the story, the body of the character. Things smell like something; there's weather, there's texture, there's light.
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.
Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.
My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.