{"id":907,"date":"2014-05-05T07:22:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T13:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2014-05-05T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T13:22:19","slug":"short-story-month-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"Read*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read Flannery O\u2019Connor. Read Joy Williams. Read William Maxwell.<a href=\"http:\/\/kathyfishdotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/william-maxwell.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kathyfishdotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/william-maxwell.jpeg\" alt=\"william maxwell\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-908\" \/><\/a> Read about the universe. Read about neuroanatomy. Read \u201cOn the Origin of Species.\u201d <figure id=\"attachment_910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-910\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kathyfishdotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/on-the-origin-of-species.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kathyfishdotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/on-the-origin-of-species.jpeg\" alt=\"Yes, really!\" width=\"182\" height=\"278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-910\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, really!<\/figcaption><\/figure>Read \u201cNine Stories.\u201d Read Tolstoy. Read Carson McCullers. Read Edward P. Jones. Read Willa Cather. Read Yasunari Kawabata. Study atlases and maps. Read E.B. White. Read fairy tales. Remember that &#8220;fresh new voices&#8221; can come from people over forty. Find those writers and read them. Read Shakespeare. Read Amy Hempel and Lydia Davis. Compare. At least once a week, read a book published by a small press. Read, read, read poetry. Learn the names of all the insects that inhabit your backyard. Or make up names for them. Read Freud. Read graphic novels. Read prose poetry and flash fiction. Study the dictionary. Read a book about a place you never heard of from a writer whose name you can&#8217;t pronounce. Read naked. Find and read a newspaper from the day you were born. Or any old newspaper. <a href=\"http:\/\/kathyfishdotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/old-newspapers.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kathyfishdotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/old-newspapers.jpeg\" alt=\"old newspapers\" width=\"203\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-911\" \/><\/a>Learn another language, then read a novel or poetry in that language. Read \u201cOne Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish\u201d out loud with no children present.<a href=\"http:\/\/kathyfishdotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/one-fish-two-fish.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kathyfishdotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/one-fish-two-fish.jpeg\" alt=\"one fish two fish\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-909\" \/><\/a> Read philosophy. Buy a thick notebook and write \u201cSentences I Love\u201d on the cover. Fill it up and buy another one. Read collections of short stories. Read both print and online journals. Read the history of the town you grew up in. Read Jane Austen and Edith Wharton and the Bronte sisters. Read Katherine Mansfield and Shirley Jackson and K&otilde;b&otilde; Abe. Read Grace Paley. Read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Read long into the night until the characters walk around in your dreams. Read \u201cThe Dead\u201d at least one winter afternoon a year. And if your mother or your aunt or your grandmother want to tell you their stories, drop everything you&#8217;re doing and listen.<\/p>\n<p>*Originally published as one of my writing tips for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lascauxflash.com\/2013\/03\/read.html\">Lascaux Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Flannery O\u2019Connor. Read Joy Williams. Read William Maxwell. Read about the universe. Read about neuroanatomy. Read \u201cOn the Origin of Species.\u201d Read \u201cNine Stories.\u201d Read Tolstoy. Read Carson McCullers. Read Edward P. Jones. Read Willa Cather. Read Yasunari Kawabata. Study atlases and maps. Read E.B. White. Read fairy tales. Remember that &#8220;fresh new voices&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[562,829,915,1090],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lascaux-review","tag-read","tag-short-story-month","tag-writing-advice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}