By Janisse Ray. Trackless Wild LLC, 2024.
To write killer prose you need three things.
- You need craft. That means you need to learn how to put words together so they say more than what’s on the page. You have to push your words to say more. Plus, something more than craft is necessary.
- You need a sparkling, juicy, and ever-deepening relationship with mystery. You have to get yourself into that current. How? How do you tap into magic and transfer it to the page?
- You need to know how to build this life for yourself.
In Craft & Current Ray lays out how to do that. How to write from the ribs out, from the keel up, from the mast down. How to craft and how to magic.
Janisse Ray is an award-winning American author who has been writing about the natural world for over 30 years. Her first book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, is an environmental memoir that tells the story of growing up in the disappearing longleaf pine flatwoods. It was a New York Times Notable and is credited with bringing attention to a critically endangered ecosystem and starting the movement to restore this iconic landscape. She has won an American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Southern Booksellers Award, Southern Environmental Law Center Writing Award, Nautilus Award, and Eisenberg Award, among many others. Her books have been translated into Turkish, French, and Italian. Janisse Ray leads workshops on writing, where she teaches not only writing technique but how to access the mysteries that make writing great. Find out more at her website, janisseray.com or subscribe to her free Substack newsletter, “Trackless Wild.”
