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How to Read Like a Writer
10 Lessons to Elevate Your Reading and Writing Practice
Erin M. Pushman
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
How to Read Like a Writer
10 Lessons to Elevate Your Reading and Writing Practice
Erin M. Pushman
About This Book
"Reliably insightful." â 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 â each pairing published readings with practical critical and creative exercises â this book helps writers master such key elements of their craft as: · Genre â from fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry to hybrid genres such as graphic narratives and online forms
· Plot, conflict, theme and image
· Developing characters â physical descriptions, psychological depths and actions
· Narrators and points of view â 1st, 2nd and 3rd person narratives
· Scenes and settings â time, space and place
· Structure and form â length, organization and media
· Language, subtext and style