Erin M. Pushman

How to Read Like a Writer (eBook, ePUB)

10 Lessons to Elevate Your Reading and Writing Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350119420
• Artikelnr.: 62878220

Autorenporträt

Erin M. Pushman is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Limestone College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Writers Read Lesson 1: Genre i. Fiction ii. Creative
Nonfiction iii. Poetry Lesson 2: Hybrids and Multigenre Work i. Graphic
Narrative ii. Photo Essay iii. Prose Poems and Other Hybrids iv. Emerging
Hybrids and Other Multigenre Work Lesson 3: Form i. One Size Does Not Fit
All ii. Long, Short and Shorter iii. In Print, Online and Social Medias
Lesson 4: Plot, Conflict and Theme/Image i. What Drives a Story, Poem or
Essay? ii. Central Theme/Image iii. Plot and Narrative Arc iv. Conflict
Lesson 5: Structure i. Overall Structure ii. Nontraditional Structures iii.
Whitespace and Other Structural Markers Lesson 6: Character Development i.
Discovering Depth and Nuance ii. When the Narrator is Also a Character
Lesson 7: Point of View i. Narrator, Speaker ii. First, Second, and Third
iii. Omniscience and Limits iv. Distance and Closeness v. When the Narrator
is also the Writer (Nonfiction) Lesson 8: Setting i. Place, Space, and Time
ii. Introducing Setting iii. Physical Details Lesson 9: Reading to Discover
Scene i. When Writers Use Scene ii. Short, Long, and In-Between iii.
Recognizing Well-Rendered Scenes Lesson 10: Language i. Developing a
Literary Ear ii. Resonance iii. Sensory Language iv. Style v. Voice and
Tone The End i. Making Connections ii. Each Aspect of Writing Influences
the Others iii. Continuing Down Your Path as a Reading Writer Index