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"The first step to becoming a successful writer is to become a successful reader. Helping you develop your critical skills How to Read Like a Writer is an accessible and effective step-by-step guide to how careful reading can help you improve your craft as a creative writer, whatever genre you...
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"The first step to becoming a successful writer is to become a successful reader. Helping you develop your critical skills How to Read Like a Writer is an accessible and effective step-by-step guide to how careful reading can help you improve your craft as a creative writer, whatever genre you are writing in. Across 10 lessons - each pairing published readings with practical critical and creative exercises - this book helps writers master such key elements of their craft as: · Genre - from fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry to hybrid genres such as graphic narratives and online forms · Plot, conflict, theme and image · Developing characters - physical descriptions, psychological depths and actions · Narrators and points of view - 1st, 2nd and 3rd person narratives · Scenes and settings - time, space and place · Structure and form - length, organization and media · Language, subtext and style"-- |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 203 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781350119413 1350119415 9781350119406 1350119407 |
| Index Number: | PN83 |
| CLC: | I04 |
| Call Number: | I04/P987 |
| Contents: | Prologue : (or brief introduction) -- Reading genre -- Hybrids and multi-genre work -- Short forms and digital media -- Plot, narrative arc, conflict, and central theme, concept, image, sense, or emotion -- Structure -- Character Development -- Point of view -- Setting -- Scene -- Language. |