Live Writing : Breathing Life Into Your Words
Overview
This book is based on the simple idea that every writer has a "tool box." Instead of awls and hammers, a writer's toolbox contains words, imagination, a love of books, a sense of story, and ideas for how to make the writing live and breathe. I wrote this book to give you some practical strategies to throw into your toolbox. I hope you'll try them, because these are ideas that can make you a better writer. This book is titled Live Writing, and you may be wondering what I mean by that. Most of us have read (and written!) the opposite kind of writing-dull, drab language that sounds about as interesting as a city phone book. By "live writing" I mean the kind of writing that has a current running through it-energy, electricity, juice. When we read "live writing", the words seem to lift off the page and burrow deep inside us.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780380797011
- ISBN-10: 0380797011
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish Date: March 1999
- Dimensions: 7.62 x 5.3 x 0.38 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.22 pounds
- Page Count: 144
- Reading Level: Ages 8-12
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