Villas instructs the reader in techniques of smoking bacon, how to buy and store it, and how to utilize bacon fat for cooking purposes.
He instructs the reader in what he calls 'the First Law of Petro-Politics', which says that when the price of oil goes down, freedom goes up.
In your latest book, "Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts," there's a section that instructs the reader on how to turn her husband's old shirts into decorative pillows.
In the poem "Staying Alive," he instructs the reader on what to do if lost in the wilderness: In 1972 Wagoner published Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943 63, a compilation of writings by Roethke, who had died suddenly nearly a decade earlier at age 55.
He instructs the reader on how to become proficient in dealing with mainstream news media, writing, "Learn how to hack all the media.
On a random day he finds a notebook entitled "Death Note," dropped by Ryuk, a Shinigami (more on that later), which instructs the reader that they have the ability to kill anyone, instantly, just by dotting their names down within its pages.
I would have written a description of this at each of his appearances, but ultimately I felt it would simply save time and space to instruct the reader about making this assumption ahead of time.
EB: In writing a poem, it's often more powerful to create the stone, the thing we want the reader to experience, rather than instructing the reader how to think about it.
People don't notice their everyday surroundings and daily routine, so when writers describe them it can sound as if they're trying too hard to instruct the reader.
But in writing about food I found my voice, and discovered that a recipe does more than instruct the reader, but is a way of addressing life, and celebrating it.
