How to Read Like a Writer: 10 Lessons to Elevate Your Reading and Writing Practice

by Erin M Pushman

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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 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
  • ISBN10 1350119407
  • ISBN13 9781350119406
  • Publish Date 13 January 2022
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 240
  • Language English