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How to write like a writer : a sharp and subversive guide to ignoring inhibitions, inviting inspiration, and finding your true voice / Thomas C. Foster

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 305 pages : 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780063139459
  • 0063139456
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide.

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.

With warmth and wit, Foster shows you how to get into (and over) your best self, how to find your voice, and how to know when, if ever, a piece of work is done.

Packed with enlightening anecdotes, highlighted with lists and bullet points, this invaluable guide reveals how writers work their magic, and reminds us that we all--for better or worse, whether we mean to or not--are known by what we put on paper or screen, both our thoughts and our words.

Includes index.

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.

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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