Time Travel Made Easy: A Review of Smoky Zeidel’s The Cabin
(Thomas-Jacob Publishing, LLC, 2015), ISBN: 13 978-0-9963884-3-6 As I have made the journey from reader, to writer, to student, to professional writer, to teacher of workshops and writing classes, and then to book reviewer, I have come to believe that there are three kinds of (proficient, “talented”) writers at work in the world. First, there are the Storytellers. People like Hemingway, that come from the gut, who go fearlessly into the vortexing dream-space of human experience to capture something in the net of their creating, who can spin a captivating yarn without too much verbal or plot complexity but plenty of power and resonance. Then there are the Technicians—those who inherently and through 10,000 hours of practice, understand and apply structure, word choice, syntax, and suspense… who “do the task of writing” at a high level. The third type of writer is the one who is smart enough, dedicated enough, and capable enough to know that, despite the fact that Storytel...