How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play
Athletes practice. Musicians practice. As a writer you need to do the same. Whether you have dreams of writing a novel or a memoir or a collection of poems, or you simply want to improve your everyday writing, this innovative book will show you how to build your skills by way of practice.

Through playful and purposeful exercises, you'll develop your natural aptitude for communication, strengthening your ability to come up with things to say, and your ability to get those things into the minds (and the hearts) of readers. You'll learn to:

   • Train and develop your writer's powers—creativity, memory, observation, imagination, curiosity, and the subconscious
   • Understand the true nature of the relationship between you and your readers
   • Find your writer's voice
   • Get required writing projects done so you have more time for the writing you want to do
   • And much more
Empowering and down-to-earth, How to Be a Writer gives you the tools you need, and tells you what (and how) to practice so that you can become the writer you want to be.
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How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play
Athletes practice. Musicians practice. As a writer you need to do the same. Whether you have dreams of writing a novel or a memoir or a collection of poems, or you simply want to improve your everyday writing, this innovative book will show you how to build your skills by way of practice.

Through playful and purposeful exercises, you'll develop your natural aptitude for communication, strengthening your ability to come up with things to say, and your ability to get those things into the minds (and the hearts) of readers. You'll learn to:

   • Train and develop your writer's powers—creativity, memory, observation, imagination, curiosity, and the subconscious
   • Understand the true nature of the relationship between you and your readers
   • Find your writer's voice
   • Get required writing projects done so you have more time for the writing you want to do
   • And much more
Empowering and down-to-earth, How to Be a Writer gives you the tools you need, and tells you what (and how) to practice so that you can become the writer you want to be.
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How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play

How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play

by Barbara Baig
How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play

How to Be a Writer: Building Your Creative Skills Through Practice and Play

by Barbara Baig

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Overview

Athletes practice. Musicians practice. As a writer you need to do the same. Whether you have dreams of writing a novel or a memoir or a collection of poems, or you simply want to improve your everyday writing, this innovative book will show you how to build your skills by way of practice.

Through playful and purposeful exercises, you'll develop your natural aptitude for communication, strengthening your ability to come up with things to say, and your ability to get those things into the minds (and the hearts) of readers. You'll learn to:

   • Train and develop your writer's powers—creativity, memory, observation, imagination, curiosity, and the subconscious
   • Understand the true nature of the relationship between you and your readers
   • Find your writer's voice
   • Get required writing projects done so you have more time for the writing you want to do
   • And much more
Empowering and down-to-earth, How to Be a Writer gives you the tools you need, and tells you what (and how) to practice so that you can become the writer you want to be.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781599632025
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/30/2010
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 978 KB

About the Author

Writer and self-described "maverick educator" Barbara Baig has been helping adults and college students learn how to write since 1984. Barbara's real-world writing experience, combined with her passion for teaching, has enabled her to develop an approach that is innovative, practical, and empowering, helpful to amateur and professional writers alike.

Table of Contents

Welcome 1

Section 1 Getting Started

Chapter 1 What Is Writing Practice (and How Do I Do It)? 11

Chapter 2 Starting the Journey 29

Chapter 3 Waking Up the Content-Mind: The Basic Practices 34

Section 2 Writer's Powers

Chapter 4 Creativity 57

Chapter 5 Memory and Expertise 69

Chapter 6 Observation 76

Chapter 7 Imagination 89

Chapter 8 The Subconscious 108

Chapter 9 Curiosity 114

Chapter 10 The Sherlock Holmes School of Writing 131

Section 3 Moving Toward Readers

Chapter 11 Tools for Developing Your Material 135

Chapter 12 Your Relationship with Readers 150

Chapter 13 Telling Stories 170

Chapter 14 Voice 184

Chapter 15 A Few Words on Words 192

Section 4 Required Writing

Chapter 16 Do I Have to Write That? 198

Chapter 17 Getting it Written 204

Section 5 Staying on the Path

Chapter 18 Walking the Writer's Way 241

Appendix: A Writer's Bookshelf 255

Notes 257

Acknowledgements 260

Index 263

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