How to Read Like a Writer: 10 Lessons to Elevate Your Reading and Writing Practice - Hardcover
by Erin M. Pushman (Author)
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 Writeris 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
Erin M. Pushman is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Limestone College, USA.
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