Good Naked: How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier. Revised and Expanded Edition.

by Joni B. Cole

Overview

Cole offers more stories, strategies, tips on craft, and exercises to serve new and seasoned writers from the first draft to the final edit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826364364
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	09/01/2022
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Joni B. Cole teaches creative writing and is a frequent speaker at academic programs, conferences, and social-service organizations across the country. She is the author of seven books, including Good Naked: How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier, Revised and Expanded Edition and Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive, Revised and Expanded Edition (both from UNM Press). She is a contributor to The Writer and the host of the podcast Author, Can I Ask You?

Table of Contents

Gold Stars: Preface to the Second Edition
Cheerleader for Mediocrity: Preface to the First Edition

Planet Writer
First Things First (Not)
Planet Writer
The Writer from Vermont
Who Needs Your Writing
Survival of the Optimist
You Know You're Not a Writer When . . .
In Good Company
What a Week!
Anyhoo! (Learning from Rejection without Losing Heart)
Good Naked
If You Don't Know Where You Are Going . . .
Don't Fix; Reconstitute
Good Naked
Can I Be Honest?
The Reverse Curse
The Great American Thing
Getting the "Other" Right
Every. Single. Day.
Thief of Joy
The Church of the Creative Process
A Case for Inefficiency
Seeing Blue
Drama Queen
Seeing Blue
A Walk around the Block
Heart to Heart
Decluttering
Last Typo Standing: An Open Letter to the One That Got Away
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Happy Endings

Acknowledgments
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

A humorous examination of popular writing that shows readers how their first drafts can lend to a process that increases creative impulses and finished products.—Donovan's Bookshelf

Joyful, tough-minded, and heartening, these pages offer encouragement to everyone from beginners to experienced writers. . . . One of the best books for writers I've read in a very long time.—Cynthia Huntington, Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing, Dartmouth College, and National Book Award finalist for poetry

Joyful, tough-minded, and heartening, these pages offer encouragement to everyone from beginners to experienced writers. . . . One of the best books for writers I've read in a very long time.—Cynthia Huntington, Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing, Dartmouth College, and National Book Award finalist for poetry

Belongs on every writer's bookshelf next to their copy of Strunk and White. . . . You don't have to suffer for your art, and Cole will make you laugh out loud and nod in agreement as she explains why.—C. I. Dennis, author of the Vince Tanzi series

Brilliant, instructive, and witty . . . an essential read for everyone who wants to write or keep writing.—Gina Barreca, author of ten books and the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Connecticut

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