How to write like a writer
a sharp and subversive guide to ignoring inhibitions inviting inspiration and finding your true voice
How to write like a writer
a sharp and subversive guide to ignoring inhibitions inviting inspiration and finding your true voice
Book - 2022
Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing--and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher--retired professor Thomas C. Foster guides you through the basics of writing. With How to Write Like a Writer you'll learn how to organize your thoughts, construct first drafts, and (not incidentally) keep you in your chair so that inspiration can come to visit.
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| Định dạng: | Sách |
| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
2022
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| Phiên bản: | First edition. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: Can't we just text or something? -- Why write? The "I" at the center of "write" -- I-Thou relationships -- Writing as exploration of self -- Writing as exploration of subject -- Writing as a locus of play -- Interlude: The writer's seven (or however many) deadly sins -- What to write and how. Tell yourself what you want to say -- Voice actor -- Beginning before you begin -- Beginnings -- The part between the ends -- Endings -- Don't edit a flying leap -- The problem with process -- Detailing your prose -- Soaring practice. Exercises from literature -- Writing exercises that illuminate academic or professional tasks -- Sentences and their friends -- Interlude: Rules to live, or at least write, by -- Oh, yeah? Prove it! -- Even the Nile has a source -- Revision: It ain't pretty, but... -- Detailing your prose (2) -- Conclusion: The exquisite pain of never being quite finished. | |
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