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

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

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“Reliably insightful.” – Publishers WeeklyThe 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

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