Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively - Hardcover

McClanahan, Rebecca

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0898798612 ISBN 13: 9780898798616

Publisher: Writers Digest Books, 1999

Synopsis

Let Rebecca McClanahan guide you through an inspiring examination of description in its many forms. With her thoughtful instruction and engaging exercises, you'll learn to develop your senses and powers of observation to uncover the rich, evocative words that accurately portray your mind's images. McClanahan includes dozens of descriptive passages written by master poets and authors to illuminate the process. She also teaches you how to weave writing together using description as a unifying thread.

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About the Author

Rebecca McClanahan's tenth book, The Tribal Knot, a multi-generational memoir, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press in 2013. Other books include The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, winner of the Glasgow Prize in nonfiction, and Deep Light: New and Selected Poems. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize anthology, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Sun, and numerous anthologies. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize in fiction and the Wood Prize from Poetry, McClanahan teaches in the MFA programs of Queens University and Rainier Writing Workshop.

Please visit her website at www.mcclanmuse.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Writers Digest Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898798612
• ISBN 13: 9780898798616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250