
How to Write Like a Writer
A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice
- 336 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
How to Write Like a Writer
A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Can’t We Just Text or Something?
- Why Write?
- What to Write and How
- Soaring Practice
- Conclusion: The Exquisite Pain of Never Being Quite Finished
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Bold Statements (and Bald-Faced Truths)
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by Thomas C. Foster
- Copyright
- About the Publisher