Murder your darlings : and other gentle writing advice from Aristotle to Zinsser
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First edition.
A collection of over a hundred writing tips gleaned from fifty popular writing books. Chapters are devoted to each key strategy. Author expands and contextualizes original authors' suggestions and shares how each tip helped other authors improve their skills.
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| Chappaqua Library | 808.02 CLARK (Text) Nonfiction |
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| John C. Hart Memorial Library | 808 C (Text) Nonfiction |
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| Katonah Village Library | 808.02 C (Text) Nonfiction |
31013151860216 |
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| Larchmont Public Library | 808.02 C (Text) Nonfiction |
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| Mount Pleasant Public Library | 808 C (Text) Nonfiction |
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| Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library | 808 C (Text) Nonfiction |
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| Rye Free Reading Room | ART & LIT. - 808.02 CLARK (Text) Nonfiction |
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| The Field Library | 808.02 C (Text) Nonfiction |
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| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | 808.02 C (Text) Nonfiction |
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| 245 | 1 | 0. | ‡aMurder your darlings : ‡band other gentle writing advice from Aristotle to Zinsser / ‡cRoy Peter Clark. |
| 250 | . | ‡aFirst edition. | |
| 264 | 1. | ‡aNew York : ‡bLittle, Brown Spark, ‡c2020. | |
| 300 | . | ‡aix, 340 pages ; ‡c22 cm | |
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| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 319-328) and index. | |
| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡tA writing book about writing books -- ‡tLanguage and craft. ‡tSir Arthur Quiller-Couch : Murder your darlings ; ‡tWilliam Zinsser : Find and cut the clutter ; ‡tDonald Hall : Learn to live inside words ; ‡tGeorge Campbell : Shape a sentence for the desired effect ; ‡tJohn McPhee : Work from a plan -- ‡tVoice and style. ‡tWilliam Strunk Jr. and E. B. White : Recognize two contradictory meanings of style ; ‡tGary Provost and Ursula K. Le Guin : Vary sentence length to create a pleasing rhythm ; ‡tVera John-Steiner : Use visual markings to spark your creative process ; ‡tConstance Hale and Jessie Scanlon : Tune your voice for the digital age ; ‡tBen Yagoda : Turn the dials that adjust the way you sound as a writer -- ‡tConfidence and identity. ‡tDonald Murray : Learn the steps of the writing process ; ‡tAnne Lamott : Keep writing - things will get better ; ‡tPeter Elbow : Write freely to discover what you want to say ; ‡tDorothea Brande and Brenda Ueland : Say it loud : "I am a writer" ; ‡tStephen King : Develop the writing habit -- ‡tStorytelling and character. ‡tBrian Boyd : Understand the value of storytelling ; ‡tJames Wood : Prefer the complex human narrator ; ‡tNorthrop Frye : Write for sequence, then for theme ; ‡tLajos Egri : Distill your story into five words - maybe three ; ‡tE. M. Forster : Add dimension to characters ; ‡tGay Talese and Tom Wolfe : Report for story -- ‡tRhetoric and audience. ‡tLouise M. Rosenblatt : Anticipate the needs of readers ; ‡tQuintilian : Embrace rhetoric as the source of language power ; ‡tAristotle : Influence the emotional responses of your audience ; ‡tVivian Gornick and Mary Karr : Sign a social contract with the reader ; ‡tRudolf Flesch and Robert Gunning : Write to the level of your reader - and a little higher -- ‡tMission and purpose. ‡tS. I Hayakawa : Learn the strategies that make reports reliable ; ‡tKurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer : Write to make your soul grow ; ‡tHorace : Write to delight and instruct ; ‡tEdward R. Murrow : Become the eyes and ears of the audience ; ‡tAldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Neil Postman : Choose advocacy over propaganda ; ‡tNatalie Goldberg and Charles Johnson : Be a writer - and so much more -- ‡gAppendix : Books by Roy Peter Clark. |
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