Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces

Clark, Roy Peter

ISBN 10: 0316126713 / ISBN 13: 9780316126717

Published by Little, Brown and Company (edition 1), 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316126713
• ISBN 13: 9780316126717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head.

In Help! For Writers, Roy Peter Clark presents an "owner's manual" for writers, outlining the seven steps of the writing process, and addressing the 21 most urgent problems that writers face. In his trademark engaging and entertaining style, Clark offers ten short solutions to each problem. Out of ideas? Read posters, billboards, and graffiti. Can't bear to edit yourself? Watch the deleted scenes feature of a DVD, and ask yourself why those scenes were left on the cutting-room floor. Help! For Writers offers 210 strategies to guide writers to success.

About the Author

Roy Peter Clark is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, one of the most prestigious schools for journalists in the world. He has taught writing at every level -- from schoolchildren to Pulitzer Prize-winning authors -- for more than forty years.

A writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, he has authored or edited nineteen books on writing and journalism, including The Art of X-Ray Reading, How to Write Short, Writing Tools, The Glamour of Grammar, and Help! for Writers. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he is considered a garage-band legend.