3.5
Help! For Writers
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The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head.
In
, Roy Peter Clark presents an "owner's manual" for writers, outlining the seven steps of the writing process, and addressing the 21 most urgent problems that writers face. In his trademark engaging and entertaining style, Clark offers ten short solutions to each problem. Out of ideas? Read posters, billboards, and graffiti. Can't bear to edit yourself? Watch the deleted scenes feature of a DVD, and ask yourself why those scenes were left on the cutting-room floor.
offers 210 strategies to guide writers to success.
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3.5
Thomas Edmund
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“While Help! For Writers is written by a (renowned) Journalism Teacher much of the advice is very applicable to fiction authors.
This book isn't a plot/character/sentence structure type book, its a very practical, holistic focus on many many aspects of writing - including Writer's Block, habit building, self-care, sensible perceptions and research and so on.
Even if that doesn't sound super attractive to folk looking for writing books on more exciting topics - this is really useful reading, especially if you find yourself struggling in any way.”
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About Roy Peter Clark
is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, one of the most prestigious schools for journalists in the world. He has taught writing at every level -- from schoolchildren to Pulitzer Prize-winning authors -- for more than forty years.
A writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, he has authored or edited nineteen books on writing and journalism, including
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,
,
, and
. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he is considered a garage-band legend.
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