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user-inactivated  ·  3733 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Stephen King Teaches Writing

    You spend all your time reading proper English and you learn how it sounds, or looks.

Yep. And yet my elementary school teachers used to take away my books when I read during class...

I got a pretty good sight gag out of it once, though, when I anticipated her and brought seven books. Kept pulling out new ones when her back was turned. Class dug it.