Full Description
Drawing on years of experience of writing, teaching and publishing, this book offers essential tools for writers interested in honing their craft. Whether you're a poet, non-fiction writer, novelist, journalist, student or simply a lover of words, it will take you on an exciting and challenging journey to becoming a sophisticated writer.
As in the learning of any true craft or art, first the focus is on specific skills, then on consolidating those skills, which by the end will be innate. Through a variety of exercises and freewriting prompts, Playing with Words will help you develop your writing, trying out new styles and approaches along the way. Use this book in a class, in a group, or alone in a writer's attic.
Contents
Introduction
1. Playing with Words
2. Stunning Sentences and Powerful Paragraphs
3. Finding your Voice
4. Purple Prose, Melodrama and Sentimentality
5. Minimalism
6. The Spaces Between
7. Well-Crafted Metaphors
8. Moving Plot Along
9. Finding Place
AfterWords
Appendix.
