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A reissue of a classic work originally published in 1934 on writing and the creative process, Becoming a Writer recaptures the excitement of Dorothea Brande's creative-writing classroom of the 1920s. Decades before brain research "discovered" the particular roles of the right and left sides of the brain in human endeavor, Brande was teaching students how to see again, how to hold their minds still, how to call forth the inner writer. She had novice writers note the effects of everything in their environment on their writing. She showed them how to harness the unconscious, how to fall into "artistic coma," then how to reemerge and be their own critics. Becoming a Writer is Brande's legacy to all those who have ever wanted
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A reissue of a classic work originally published in 1934 on writing and the creative process, Becoming a Writer recaptures the excitement of Dorothea Brande's creative-writing classroom of the 1920s. Decades before brain research "discovered" the particular roles of the right and left sides of the brain in human endeavor, Brande was teaching students how to see again, how to hold their minds still, how to call forth the inner writer. She had novice writers note the effects of everything in their environment on their writing. She showed them how to harness the unconscious, how to fall into "artistic coma," then how to reemerge and be their own critics. Becoming a Writer is Brande's legacy to all those who have ever wanted to express their ideas in written form. A sound, practical, inspirational, and charming approach to writing, it fulfills on the expectation in her introduction: "This book, I believe, will be unique... I think there is such magic and that it is teachable. This book is all about the writer's magic."

A reissue of the inspiring 1934 classic. Brande believes that writing is a magical process "and that it is teachable."

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780874771640
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 3/28/1981
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 144,739
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 7.95 (h) x 0.53 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword by John Gardner In Introduction

1. The Four Difficulties
The Difficulty of Writing at All; The "One-Book Author"; The Occasional Writer; The Uneven Writer; The Difficulties Not in Technical Equipment.

2. What Writers are Like
Cultivating a Writer's Temperament; False and Real Artists; The Two Sides of a Writer; "Dissociation" Not Always Psychopathic; Everyday Examples of Dual Personality; The Slough of Despond

3. The Advantages of Duplicity
The Process of Story Formation; The "Born Writer"; Unconscious and Conscious; The Two Persons of the Writer; The Transparent Barrier; Keep Your Own Counsel; Your "Best Friend and Severest Critic"; The Right Recreation; Friends and Books; The Arrogant Intellect; The Two Selves Not at War; The First Exercise

4. Interlude: On Taking Advice
Save Your Energy; Imagination Versus Will in Changing Habits; Displacing Old Habits; A Demonstration; The Right Frame of Mind

5. Harnessing the Unconscious
Wordless Daydreams; Toward Effortless Writing; Double Your "Output"

6. Writing on Schedule
Engaging to Write; A Debt of Honor; Extending the Exercise; Succeed, or Stop Writing

7. The First Survey
Reading Your Work Critically; The Pitfalls of Imitation; Discovering Your Strength; A Footnote for Teachers

8. The Critic at Work on Himself
A Critical Dialogue Be Specific in Suggestions Correction After Criticism The Conditions of Excellence Dictating a Daily Regime

9. Readings as a Writer
Read Twice Summary Judgment and Detailed Analysis The Second Reading Points of Importance

10. On Imitation
Imitating Technical Excellence How to Spend Words Counteracting Monotony Pick Up Fresh Words

11. Learning to See Again
The Blinders of Habit Causes of Repetitiousness Recapturing Innocence of Eye A Stranger in the Streets The Rewards of Virtue

12. The Source of Originality
The Elusive Quality Originality Not Imitation The "Surprise Ending"
Honesty, the Source of Originality Trust Yourself
"Your Anger and My Anger"
One Story, Many Versions Your Inalienable Uniqueness A Questionnaire

13. The Writer's Recreation
Busmen's Holidays Wordless Recreation Find Your Own Stimulus A Variety of Time-Fillers

14. The Practice Story
A Recapitulation The Contagiousness of Style Find Your Own Style The Story in Embryo The Preparatory Period Writing Confidently A Finished Experiment Time for Detachment The Critical Reading

15. The Great Discovery
The Five-Finger Exercises of Writing The Root of Genius Unconscious, Not Subconscious The Higher Imagination Come to Terms with the Unconscious The Artistic Coma and the Writer's Magic

16. The Third Person, Genius
The Writer Not Dual But Triple The Mysterious Faculty Releasing Genius Rhythm, Monotony, Silence A Floor to Scrub

17. The Writer's Magic
X Is to Mind as Mind to Body Hold Your Mind Still Practice in Control The Story Idea as the Object The Magic in Operation Inducing the "Artistic Coma"
Valedictory

In Conclusion: Some Prosaic Pointers
Typewriting Have Two Typewriters Stationery At the Typerwriter: WRITE!
For Coffee Addicts Coffee Versus Maté
Reading Book and Magazine Buying

Bibliography Index

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  • Posted April 6, 2009

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    This book hits the nail on the head (as they say) and is extremely informative and essential for all the would-be writers out there.

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  • Anonymous

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    Want to be a Writer? Then read this book. It is bound to become a classic in the genre. If you are a blunted/stunted Artists for whatever reason? This book is for you.

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