How to Read Like a Writer: 10 Lessons to Elevate Your Reading and Writing Practice
By:
Sign Up Now!
Already a Member? Log In
You must be logged into UK education collection to access this title.
Learn about membership options,
or view our freely available titles.
- Synopsis
- 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
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781350119437
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781350119406
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 12/15/21
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.