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How to Read Like a Writer : 10 Lessons to Elevate Your Reading and Writing Practice
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Overview
"Reliably insightful." - Publishers Weekly
The first step to becoming a successful writer is to become a successful reader. Helping you develop your critical skills How to Read Like a Writer is an accessible and effective step-by-step guide to how careful reading can help you improve your craft as a creative writer, whatever genre you are writing in. Across 10 lessons - each pairing published readings with practical critical and creative exercises - this book helps writers master such key elements of their craft as: - Genre - from fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry to hybrid genres such as graphic narratives and online forms- Plot, conflict, theme and image
- Developing characters - physical descriptions, psychological depths and actions
- Narrators and points of view - 1st, 2nd and 3rd person narratives
- Scenes and settings - time, space and place
- Structure and form - length, organization and media
- Language, subtext and style
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- ISBN-13: 9781350119413
- ISBN-10: 1350119415
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publish Date: January 2022
- Dimensions: 9.61 x 6.69 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
- Page Count: 216
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