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✨ ✨  4th prompt for this new season of /words ✨ ✨ 

Writers, aspiring writers, & appreciators of great writing all welcome to answer!

Question: What writer and/or piece of writing makes you say: 
✨ "I WANT TO WRITE LIKE THAT!!" ✨ & why are they/it so appealing to you?  

Tell us a writer that you love everything they write and why or tell us about a piece of writing that stays in your head as inspiration of how you want to write..and tell us what about the writing style or communication works for you.

Please respond with either a comment below or via quote cast here in the channel, whichever you prefer ✍️

Rebecca Solnit for me.

Have enjoyed reading her writing since discovering her books in college. 

I find that they tend to have a meandering yet profoundly expansive quality. Reading Solnit is like going on a leisurely stroll—soaking in the sights and sounds of the landscapes she has traversed, the geographies of emotions she has tried to map, and the histories of meaning she excavates. 

Perhaps I'm biased as the first books I read of hers were titled "Wanderlust: A History of Walking" and "A Field Guide To Getting Lost", and they came at a time when I was trying to figure out who I was as a young adult, often jetting off to farflung places in the process.

But I do think she has a superlative ability to capture and distill emotional depth in her writing. For readers who have the time and ability to sit still for a while, you may therefore find that she has some amazingly resonant ways of reflecting the profundity of the human experience within nature and with each other.